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The Three Body Problem is not good (lemmy.zip)

submitted 9 months ago by ieGod@lemmy.zip to c/books@lemmy.world

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Wrapped up the first book after much struggle. Am I crazy for finding it extremely poorly written? Writing aside, the characters suck, the motivations suck, and the scenario building feels like it was tossed together by a 12 year old. I don't get the hype. Everything is paper thin. The fictional science aspect is the most compelling part but as a cohesive whole it fails to land.

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[–] Yaky@slrpnk.net 3 points 9 months ago

I agree that The Dark Forest is better. The premise is so simple: Alien fleet is coming here in a few hundred years, let's see how humanity will go nuts or prepare in a myriad of ways. (And also there are no aliens in the second book - I did not like them, they were too human attitude-wise and too inconsistent tech-wise)