/lit/ - Literature

pic: The Three Body Problem

basically just: Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke

Probably late to the party but I have just finished pic related and I have mixed feelings about it
On one hand it captivated me but on the other I feel like it jumped the shark once the magical aliens create an AI from a proton to fuck with human technology. Up until that point the novel was somewhat grounded in a sort of pseudoscientific logic but there it all goes out the window.

There are also a few other points that were a little ridiculous to me
>when the three suns are aligned the planet loses its gravity
So only when they are perfectly aligned their gravitational pull passes that of the planet? Sounds pretty convenient
And most of all
>Three body problem
>The planet is in a four body system

However it was enjoyable and that's why I struggle to classify it as shit and I am still curious to read the next volumes. Although the historical parts were boring as shit.
What did you think /lit/? I know you are all sciencelets I will probably have to go over at /sci/ to complain about the plot holes

Is it any good?

I have just finished reading this trilogy. It was the longest tragedy/cautionary tale I have ever read. I went into it without any prior knowledge so I was expecting a very different kind of story until about the first book's halfway point, and I wasn't initially on board with it, but in the end the three books come together very nicely.

But oh man, if the third book's story came in some kind of serialized format, for example a tv series, the shipper meltdown at the end would have been something spectacular. A shame this will now never happen.

When does this shit get good ?
I'm at Red Coast V and till now it has been mostly exposition.

just finished the dark forest trilogy, was pretty neat. looking for something similar. first contact/interstellar war kinda thing with interesting alien technology or culture

Just bought an audiobook version of pic related which is named after

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-body_problem

and wondering if anyone else had a hard time following characters names because theyre not english(my audiobook is the translated version so its in english) just every single name is chinese and they seem to blur on me, the characters are each unique but I cant seem to follow the names very well yet

do they eventually stick or am I just retarded?