xp the friend I recommended it to also got stuck early in book 1. the comparison to Foundation is a good one - both are much more focused on ideas and systems than characters or dialogue, and I'm not surprised to see people dislike them on those grounds. somehow Three-Body has even less memorable characters than Foundation, not that it hurt my enjoyment of it at all
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 14 May 2019 09:04 (four years ago) link
Re the trilogy, I was enjoying it with reservations until the end of book one properly introduced the aliens, and they were as boring as fuck.
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 01:26 (four years ago) link
lol this film is so good
― mark s, Thursday, 7 May 2020 22:03 (three years ago) link
I started this:
We Are Bugs in this thread for The Three-Body Problem 三体 and its various adaptations
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 28 July 2023 05:03 (eight months ago) link
Saw this yesterday v enjoyable.
"and casually breezed-through plot points like 3.5 billion being considered expendable -- wow is that Chinese"
Thought this one was OK to explain away with the drawing of lots but maybe people couldn't build underground cities fast enough, plus a lot of ppl died in events like floods
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 14 April 2024 08:54 (one week ago) link
Thought a lot of that section is the nearest to the kinds of things that are coming with climate change :-(
But it had to zap through. Didn't understand a lot like, what is Moss' game here? It was very funny how he was overcome, biggest laugh from me.
Quite like to read the story.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 14 April 2024 09:04 (one week ago) link
apparerently it's abt three bodies and this problem they have
― mark s, Sunday, 14 April 2024 13:18 (one week ago) link