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Just finished The Three-Body Problem trilogy. What a saga. I finished the last book a month or two back and I still find myself randomly thinking about various
by kaycebasques 3y ago
Just finished The Three-Body Problem trilogy. What a saga. I finished the last book a month or two back and I still find myself randomly thinking about various ideas that I picked up in those books. If you're "serious" about sci-fi, I would say that you really do have to read those books as part of your "curriculum".
- jackthetab 3y agoThe other two books are _that_ good? I just finished the first book. The three body problem and its ramifications was interesting, as was the social background. Other than that, it was a decent YA novel, nothing more. If the other two are that much better, I'll give 'em a shot but otherwise...
- jiscariot 3y agoIf you've already read 1, you really should read 2/Dark Forest.
- ioseph 3y agoIMO the first book was the strongest, followed by the third, I found the 2nd a slog to get through.
- kaycebasques 3y agoThe second was a slog for me too BUT weirdly enough the ideas and events that I'm thinking about the most come from that book. I have wondered many times whether the second book would have been a more enjoyable read if they had stuck with the translator from the first book, who also translated the third book.
- jiscariot 3y agoSeems like everyone disagrees with the ranking of 3PB books. Probably a good thing. On 2 read-throughs, I vastly prefer 2 then 3, and consider 1 a bit of a slog.
- mkatx 3y agoHow accessible is this? My mom loves sci-fy, but she probably doesn't have the math/physics chops to hit something too deep in those topics.
- kaycebasques 3y agoI can recall only a few physics-heavy moments in the trilogy. Don't recall any math-heavy moments.
- ioseph 3y agoShe'd be fine