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Old 04-24-2016, 07:41 PM   #23904
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Originally Posted by CRussel View Post
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.
Like you, I read Red Mars and part of the second one when they were fairly new. I always think of the series as being the epitome of hard sci-fi: no character in it you can remember 5 minutes after you've closed the book.

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