/lit/ - Literature

I finished this yesterday and didn’t get the chance to post but damn is it kino. Far better than the first. The opening scene, established as a bit of a gimmicky play with pov, is actually the setup to the entire idea of the book, not paid off until the last few pages? I savor that shit. Genuinely did not expect the clearly very dorky chink who wrote this to have that in him. I might just get why this series is so wanked over.
The only issue I have is that this book is so satisfying on its own, I have less motivation to read the next one. I can feel that some of the ‘magic’ will be gone, whatever is pulled. Nonetheless, excited. I love ‘idea soup’ sci-fi, and the 1st one scratched that itch, but the way the dark forest theory was treated in this one is better than all the tech exposition in the entire series.

>governments of the world give 4 guys near absolute power to prepare for alien invasion
>3 of them immidately start working on their tryhard projects
>MCs first action is to get perfect countryside house he saw in his dreams so he can be a NEET for his entire life
>MCs second action is to force government to find and give him state-sanctioned perfect gf he saw in his dreams among billions of women
>nobody can do anything about it because it might be part of his masterplan (in reality he just wants to be a comfy NEET with perfect petite gf)
seriously, some was the funniest unintentional comedy I read in long time

what the fuck is this waifu plot

This is absolutely mind numbing. The dialogue is trash and the pacing is some of the worst I've ever encountered. This book contains more text than The Fall of Hyperion.

After two weeks of putting off The Dark Forest, I have to admit that I'm just not interested in reading it. I'm skipping it.

Moving on to The Wisdom of Crowds. The finale to the Age of Madness trilogy. Praying it's good.

>Took a small break from reading The Dark Forest
>No desire to pick it back up again
I do feel kind of bad, because my attention span has been short lately. Which is very uncharacteristic for me. But at the same time, I can't work up the energy to care. Maybe I should officially skip it?

>Interrupts your sci-fi narrative to with a lengthy segment about a man becoming an author and creating a tulpa
UUUUGGGGGGHHHH... When will it END?!

>Wildly imaginative
>President Barack Obama.
Talk about a fucking blurb. I NEED to read this NOW

>>14083248
How many books have you read in your life? If you consider the top 1000 books in human history, do you really think number #872 would be trash? The human experience is so wide that I’m still picking up new things that I’ve never thought of.

Currently I’m reading “The Dark Forest” from the 3 body trilogy. Before this trilogy, I read Red Storm Rising. These are both pretty damn popular but not part of the “canon,” yet I’ve learned much from them. Even after reading the classics, there is still so much to discover. Broaden your horizons.