• @ikidd
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    103 months ago

    Three Body Problem.

    • @hasnt_seen_goonies
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      33 months ago

      I just had a friend tell me he loved the whole series (with caveats), why didn’t you like it?

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        3 months ago

        The handwaving “science” part. And then in the end there’s this deus ex machina plot point that comes out that makes all the rest of the plot utterly pointless.

        I’ve read a lot of SF, that was the worst because I had such high hope for it after reading what everyone had to say about it. And it turned me off reading anything that’s won a Hugo entirely. That and Redshirts…

        • @hasnt_seen_goonies
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          23 months ago

          That definitely makes sense. What’s a good SF book you’ve read recently?

          • @ikidd
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            33 months ago

            Mainly short story anthologies for the last year. Been bingeing Dozois’ Years Best series and moved into Strahan’s recently.

      • @blackbirdbiryani
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        43 months ago

        It really puts your suspension of disbelief to the test, and all the characters are terrible. I actually thought the netflix show was better than the book because the characters were alot more relatable.

        • Random Dent
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          12 months ago

          Yeah same here, I thought it was one of the few cases where the adaptation was better than the book. It cuts out a lot of the waffle from the books and patches up lots of holes, especially with characters like you said.

        • @ikidd
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          12 months ago

          Yah, totally forgot to mention how horrendously bad the characters were. Like 50’s SF bad.

      • @Vodica
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        22 months ago

        Absolutely agreed. Three body problem is overhyped garbage.