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Megan Fox Jun 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. 😭

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kevin 🆖

@glassbottommeg I read both to the end. I didn't like TIHYLTTW because I found the prose overly dense without much reason and the payoff not that great, but I loved the 3 Body Problem series. The characters are mostly archetypes, and characterisation is not helped by large time jumps, but some of the ideas are wonderful. Once it hooks you it will keep you until the end.