sotolf3d ago
Kind of being a bit down on Green Mars so far it's been "some white males aren't that bad" propaganda, some sex between really young people, people spending time with other people that they severely dislike etc, almost 200 pages in now, and it feels a bit like swimming in sirup.
Show threadLars Ivar3d ago
@sotolf I loved those books when I read them 25 (?) years ago, but time may have left them behind.
Show threadsotolf3d ago

@larsivi Well, I also come to them from a far the far left, so the basic theory that it tries to smuggle in without making americans balk at its communism light.

At times it's good, in the moment it's good, but there are just so many things rubbing me the wrong way.

Show threadLars Ivar
@sotolf I fairly recently read The Ministry for the Future, which I also liked a lot. Some time after I read a criticism of it though, that made me see that, while I think KSR is a good, fairly liberal and even woke person, he is also a priveliged, white American.
Mar 24 at 9:46amWeb
Show threadsotolf3d ago
@larsivi Yeah, that does sum it up pretty much for me, he also loves stereotyping other nationalities for some reason, but I guess that's part of the American thing :p