Red Mars

This book is one of those books you don't know what to think of. It received all sorts of awards but I'm not sure why. I kept on thinking why I'm I continuing to read this book, it isn't very interesting. I'm not usually a sci-fi person, the story kind of drags along but I wanted to find out what happened to those characters I had been following. I say this but I've also just bought the 2nd book and I plan on reading it as well. So I guess the development of Mars isn't really that interesting to me but where the characters go and why is enough to hold my interest and to continue on.