https://youtu.be/5lj99Uz1d50

The Three Body Problem trailer for the new Netflix adaptation is out. I must say I am very skeptical of this one. This being one of my favorite books I have my doubts that they will do it justice. I’m sure it will be visually interesting and everything, but that’s not really the point. Especially not for book 1.

I recently watched both the Tencent live adaptation as well as the animated adaptation of The Dark Forest and sometimes I feel like these books were better left on paper. The live show wasn’t bad or anything it just has a different feel to it on screen that’s hard to understand.

Warning: please refrain from posting book spoilers in this thread. General discussion is fine.

  • @Donjuanme
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    41 year ago

    Sounds like the enders game series. I wonder why so many things fall off at number 3, and why we can’t be sated with one good story.

    • @Geek_King
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      31 year ago

      I loved the first Ender’s Game, and then I read the follow up book from Bean’s perspective. But outside of those, I didn’t even attempt all the sequels.

      • @Donjuanme
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        31 year ago

        Enders shadow (the bean story) is the only one worth a minute of your time. Speaker of the dead had some interesting ideas regarding star travel, but quickly became overly simplified.

        That simplification was expanded on (by making more parts of nature simpler and simpler) in the hive queen and the hegemon, and then made incredibly spiritual in xenophobia (might have that name wrong, never finished the book).

        As contrarian as forums on the internet are, I’ve yet to see anyone argue the enders game series is worth finishing.

        • @Geek_King
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          21 year ago

          I feel we can also add the Dune series to the same list. I think the first book is the strongest, I couldn’t get into the 2nd, but I’m told the first 3 were good then it goes rapidly downhill from there.

          • @[email protected]
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            21 year ago

            The Dune series actually picked up again down the line. Chapterhouse and Heretics really made sense of the whole arc, but I’m not sure I would have slogged through the middle books if I hadn’t been such an avid reader looking for new content as it came out.