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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I made it all the way through a Red Mars/Green Mars omnibus. 1158 pages. It was certainly no more than average, and I've felt no urgent desire to go on to the Blue Mars/The Martians omnibus (a mere 1062 pages!).
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I'd quote Kipling (you're a better, etc), but actually I don't regret abandoning it at all. I had actually read Red Mars years ago, when it first came out. And made it all the way through, I think. It was so memorable that I had almost no memory of the first read when I took up this re-read for the Book Club. And I never read any further in the series after reading the first, a pretty sure indictment.
I finally decided to read a Temeraire book by Naomi Kovik. In this case, #5,
Victory of Eagles. No better than 3.5 stars, but at least it isn't boring. And the Audible book is read by Simon Vance, so that's worth something right there.