1.49k reviews for:

Red Mars

Kim Stanley Robinson

3.75 AVERAGE

pddoherty's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging reflective tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

jeremiea's review against another edition

4.0

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

matticatti's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous informative tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

robert_meyer's review against another edition

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I trudged through 25% of this, and just couldn't keep going. Dense, very very very slow, and characters that weren't very interesting. Guess I'll have to try again some other time.

romain_ybo's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous reflective tense slow-paced

redcatamount's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous informative medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

megshelton's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous challenging informative slow-paced

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 I love Sci-fi books so when I saw this was a science fiction book where we follow the first 100 settlers to Mars, tasked with making the planet livable for humans, I was excited to dive in. KSR did so much research, and there's so much science, that it often gave off textbook vibes and I wanted to pluck my eyeballs out. I think that maybe this book was just not for me, and that's ok. I made it through but will not be finishing the series. 

marekkracl's review against another edition

2.0

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Have you ever read a sci-fi book and thought, "this could really use more staring at the desert, tea drinking, people between the ages of 40 and 90 acting like highschool students at lunch time, hand-wavy economics, and self-aggrandizing diatribes by the author to demonstrate how smart they are at every turn"? Then this is the book for you.

korecox's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous informative medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

sarah_ls's review against another edition

1.0

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I officially gave up on this one. It just took me a month to admit it.