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Me when I finished Three Body Problem (I hated it).
Yeah, I was interested at the start and then it started, and continued, to go downhill for me. I kept going in spite of growing concern because I hoped they'd tie it up well in the end, but no. It may partially be cultural and I can also see some argument for artistic tragedy, but it just didn't work for me.
Same here. I feel like an outlier!
I don't know why this happens to me but sci fi books that have "boring" characters like Raft by Stephen Baxter are books I actually really enjoy and find the character's to be realistic. Maybe I'm just a boring person irl
Wow guess I'm the outlier? I couldn't put 3BP down, and then I got to the Dark Forest and loved it even more.
Deaths End fell apart terribly though.
It's not that I liked how he wrote, I'm not sure if it was the translation that caused this, but he did not seem like a good writer at all. But I was very intrigued by his plot and ideas.
That’s how I felt too. I was excited for deaths end, but I put it down about half way through and never got back to it.
That was me for the first book, and then I hoped the TV show would get me back into it but I quit that halfway through as well.
I finished it, and it just got progressively more and more scrambled. I guess is was diagnosed with cancer when writing it, and tried to cram as many of his ideas into this one novel as he could. And then it turned out it was a misdiagnosis or something? I can't remember exactly but. Yeah, definitely not the best work lol
Well now I feel bad for hating it!
Yeah, I certainly wouldn't recommend to everyone as being just an absolutely fantastic book. I liked it a lot, but could definitely see why some would not. I have really enjoyed what's out of the new Netflix series for the show though, I'm probably more likely to just recommend that to people. It actually feels like thought was out into the characters now! Haha
History stuff : interesting but unnecessary violent (for me)
The rest: gibberish
It's very poorly written.
what language were you reading it in? i certainly noticed the English translators changed between the first and second book, and i am curious to know how it all reads in Chinese.
The first and the third books were translated by Ken Liu who is an amazing author and has gotten 4 Hugos himself. Don't know why they picked someone else for the second book.
yeah, the change in voice was so disappointing to me, i didn't make it far in the second book.
sounds like i need to look into Liu's own work!
I’ve tried like 6 times to keep slogging through. I was convinced it would be great if I just got to the point where it started being great. Now I feel validated.
Uh oh. I've had it (the first one) sitting on my shelf for a few weeks but need to finish my current series first.
You finished it?!?
First book only.
I couldn't even do that. Not could I finish the first season of the show.