![]() ![]() If you do however love Mars, reading this is something like biting into a big decadent layered fair trade organic chocolate bar with 71% dark rich Costa Rican cocoa. If you don't love or can't love the idea of Mars, then all the talk of its ferrous oxides, sulfur drifts, salt pans, and garnet sands is going to bore you to tears. Like Nadia, I want to wildly dance for joy on the Martian dust. I want to walk on its surface under the red sky and feel the thin cold wind, and this is a book for Mars geeks by a Mars geek. I've got this big wall poster of Mars, laid out in all its plucky glory - the Tharsis bulge, the big volcanoes, the massive flood erosion systems. When do we leave?" My wife might talk me out of it (she hates the cold), but if I didn't have obligations to family, I'd be there in a heartbeat. If someone from NASA told me that I could go to Mars, and there was only a 50/50 chance I'd survive, I'd be like, "That good, huh? I'm sold. Or at least, I love the idea of the planet Mars, because I've never been there. This is a book you'll either love or you will hate. ![]() ![]() To begin with, I should come forward with my biases. I wish I could bump this up to 3.5 stars, which more reflects what I feel about it. I just finished reading this for the second or third time. ![]()
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