Recommended Reading

[PointyHairedJedi]

Originally Posted by Sa'ar Chasm

I read the Red/Green/Blue Mars series and came away with the impression that KSR couldn't actually write.

The ideas impressed me, but the narrative and the dialogue were nigh-well intolerable.

It is difficult reading, yes, buit for some reason I found that after half of Red Mars it suddenly got easier. I've no idea why. But anyway, I always maintain that the best books are sometimes the least easy to read, though with the Mars trilogy I think you can either get into it, or you can't. You might try the Three Californias trilogy, which tell a different sort of story, or The Years of Rice and Salt, which I found to be magnificent, analagous in many ways to The Shape of Things to Come.