Megan FoxJun 28, 2023

Ok, talk about The Three Body Problem is cropping up again, so:

If I got completely bodied by the Chinese cultural history and ended up lost inside the first few chapters, if I just push through, does it get better? Is it like other sci-fi where you're meant to be confused and then by the end you get what's going on, only this time it's real history/culture instead of confusing fake org charts and technobabble?

I bounced off that AND This Is How You Lose The Time War around the same time, albeit for different reasons, and felt bad. 😭

Show threadJosh Jersild

@glassbottommeg It definitely is intended to be confusing at the start (the central mystery is basically "what the fuck is even going on"), and it definitely got easier as I went (the cultural stuff was interesting backdrop, and mostly the footnotes are there to describe background that the reader was expected to know innately, but I found it didn't affect the story too much)

I really liked the way the plot resolved, and I even more loved the absolutely WEIRD places books 2 and 3 went (I haven't read the fourth book but it's literally fanfiction that got the blessing of the original author to publish because he thought it was a good continuation)

I really loved those books, but it absolutely took me a bit to get into the first one.

YMMV obviously :)

Jun 28, 2023 at 10:46pmWeb