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Unironically is this worth reading?

>> No.15554236

>>15554220
It's ok

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>> No.15554414

>>15554220
The portions set in the cultural revolution where kino, as were some of the ending moments, but most of the book is STEM tier.
>>15554310
kek

>> No.15554478

>pulp fiction made by some chink

What do you think?

>> No.15554487

>>15554220
Can't speak for the original, but the English translation is proselet tier

>> No.15554492

Second book in the series is pure autism kino, loved it
2>3>1

>> No.15554502

>>15554492
And I read it German, so I don't know about the English translation. But I heard they translated some things differently to make it less sexist for some fucking reason.

>> No.15554584

>>15554220
I only read the first book, but I felt like Ive wasted my time after finishing it.

>> No.15554605

>>15554492
Ancient wine and perfect waifu parts were especially funny.

>> No.15555311

>>15554220
I love all three books but I concede that
>it's badly written
>anime characters
>translation is retarded half of the time
>its ideas are likely not original
If you're a scififag / future-thinkingfag you'll probably love it
also check the Goodreads reviews for books 2-3 if you want to see women seething

>> No.15555383

whole trilogy is easily in top 5 of the greatest sci fi things ever. Read it twice and will soon read it for the third.

i heard somewhere that some parts were censored in US version? Were there osama parts?

>> No.15555450

>>15555383
What do you like about it? Curious because I was pretty excited to read it until I saw this thread...

>> No.15555456

>>15554220
Unironically do you need to start a fucking sentence with unironically?

>> No.15555471

>>15555450
Ideas, scope, comfiness, structure of it. There's plenty of things to like here. I finished the whole trilogy in few days, reading 400-500 pages a day.

>I was pretty excited to read it until I saw this thread...

you new here, boyo?

>> No.15555501

>>15554220
Recommended it to my physics loving friend. He was all over it, not very difficult but interesting.

>> No.15555532

>>15555471
Thanks!
I'm not new - I should just no better. I just thought it looked cool and well-reviewed at the bookstore. But I knew if I didn't some more positive reinforcement, I'd just keep reading sci fi by white writers and procrastinate indefinitely on him.

>> No.15555619

>>15554220
Is the title just to look cool or is there anything to do with the three body problem (I mean theorems of Bruns and Poincare and all)?

>> No.15555934

>>15555619
the alien civilization comes from a planet whose motion is unpredictable/chaotic as established by work on the 3BP, that chaotic motion has major consequences on the psychological makeup of the alien race

>> No.15556436

>>15554220

good, even great start, then turned to rubbish in the second half.

>dude super cool historical figures in my vidya!
>somehow Chow Yun Fat works for a super secret military council
>that whole thing about the environmentalist who is secretly an oil billionaire
>the handheld atom bomb
>dude, let's take out this ship with super nanotech string

Seriously what was Liu thinking?

>> No.15556646

>>15556436

There is definitely a huge quality difference in the first part of the first book versus the entire rest of the series. I think that's what drove the popularity. If you read the book reviews in big publications it's clear most of them just stopped reading after about 50 pages because all they talk about is the intro. Books two and three are kind of just junk.

>> No.15556797

the whole trilogy is worth reading

>> No.15556959

>>15554220
>First book has a lot of interesting parts, but goes full anime in the end
>Second book immediately goes full anime, Villains show up out of nowhere giving monologues of seeing through the keikaku
>Third book is actually kino

>> No.15557960

>>15554220
>The Three-Body Problem
Introduces a lot of interesting ideas, but some of it definitely has a bit of a pilot-episode feel (i.e. parts of the setup are somewhat dull). Still a good story and sets the stage well for the sequel.

>The Dark Forest
The best of the trilogy. Elaborates on the story of the first book while still telling its own contained narrative, and contains the most interesting and imaginative sci-fi ideas of the series. It also has the best cast of characters.

>Death's End
Greatly expands the scope of the narrative, both in space and time, to mixed effect. The book's sheer scale is impressive, but also distances the reader in a way that the first two books don't. The conclusion is mostly satisfying but also feels somewhat rushed compared to the rest of the book.

Overall, the series definitely worth your time if you're interested in this kind of thing. It has its faults (the just-OK prose being the main one) but offers plenty of food for thought.

>> No.15558490

>>15555383
The Osama part is there in the english translation. They don't straight up say Osama or, if I remember right, Al Qaeda anywhere but it's pretty clear what it is.

>>15557960
I think this is a pretty good summary. Mirrors my feelings pretty well and I'm about 100 pages or so from the end of the 3rd book. I'd say the trilogy comes even more highly recommended if you know or are interested in some part of natural sciences. Doesn't really matter which part but I could see the whole thing be a little heavy to read if you're not prepared for some of the concepts and terms. I don't mean you need to be a physics major but or know any of it beforehand but I felt like talk about Lagrangian points, astronomical units or fractions of lightspeed tickled something in my brain in the same way as textbooks do.