It's not Heinlein. It's the last of Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars trilogy, hte middle book being Green Mars.
The reasons to read it over other books are science political science and planetary science. The characters are good enough so that you might indeed want to read the extra hundreds of pages, but if that's mostly what you're looking for, you could do better elsewhere.
Personally, it's among my very favorites, but if re-reading it, I'd stop when the politics are settled.
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The reasons to read it over other books are science political science and planetary science. The characters are good enough so that you might indeed want to read the extra hundreds of pages, but if that's mostly what you're looking for, you could do better elsewhere.
Personally, it's among my very favorites, but if re-reading it, I'd stop when the politics are settled.