You know you can ' t attack during whirling blades , right ? <| sep |> There ' s a slight breeze in Melbourne so Channel 9 reception is dying horribly . What were they saying about Warner ? <| sep |> I love the sound of this , can I root him sometime ? Edit This intended to be a joke . <| sep |> I love the books but I know they ' re not to everybody ' s taste . Yeah , honestly . My brother absolutely loved them , and plowed through all three . I just couldn ' t deal with it . I really was bored to tears with the first . I remember getting to a part where two characters were stranded far away from their colony , they were doing research or something . I seem to recall hot air balloons or something being used . I think . It ' s been like 10 years , so I ' m fuzzy . It was supposed to be a high tense moment , and the reader , worried if they would survive or not , i remember simply not caring . When I decided to give up on the book something I don ' t do lightly , I forced myself to finish the first book in the Dark Tower series , that was pretty brutal as well . I checked online to see if I was missing the point , something was wrong with me . I found this review on Amazon that said something to the effect of . Before reading Red Mars , I recommend that you take the book in hand . Walk outside on a clear night . Look longingly up into the sky and locate mars . Stand there for a moment . looking at that wonderful planet . Take a hold of your copy of Red Mars tightly . and try to throw it as hard as you can at the planet .