Summary of Mars trilogy: go to Mars, become a hippie.

Ok, I know there's a lot more to the book, but the whole hippie-ish thing blew it for me. I stopped reading halfway through Green Mars when Hiroko shows up naked and the conference for the future of Mars becomes a huge pagan ritual/festival.

If I wasn't interested before, now I definitely want to read this

As I recall, it confused Hiroko as well. Apparently it was translated as an artistic statement against the confines of rigid structure, or something like that.

It's been a while since I read the series. Once it got to the political debates, including on how the future school system might be set up, I started skimming.