Utopia, Part I

[faendryl]

Sometimes I spend part of my time working at menial but necessary and fulfilling jobs, such as transport system maintenance or grocery stocking, while the rest of my days are spent investigating problems I find intellectually exciting with other similarly inclined gentlefolk or on my own, with time set aside for art and adventure. Everyone else

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[apintrix]

-Red Mars: read it, love it
been there, didn't.

I thought it was absurdly dry and long-winded.
The other two were even worse, although I woke from the slumber to "waah, wtf? Orgies?" at one point.

[faendryl]

We'll have to agree to disagree, I suppose, since I thought it was a brilliant piece of world-creation and (non-ironic) intellectual, social and political speculation. I admit that I have a long record of being willing to tolerate drier material than most - ask anyone who's suffered more than one of my SR reading selections. Still, while it's the world Red Mars creates that I love, more than the prose, I think it has a great deal of austere beauty. To each his or her own.

[r_ness]

Maybe I should give them another try. Dry and soporific was how I felt about them the first time around.

[holmes_iv]

Where you say "more than one" to get around all the people who've just heard you read Vlad Taltos?