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book log 004: The Three-Body Problem
Dec. 19th, 2021 07:31 pmtitle: The Three-Body Problem, Liu Cixin
started: 12/17/21
ended: 12/18/21
thoughts:
- I had no idea what this book would be about when I picked it up; I saw it at a used bookstore, thought "Hey I've mostly liked Hugo award winning books, and it's half off" and that was that. Thankfully, it was an excellent read, easily the best book I've read this year.
- The prose is quite beautiful; I was frequently struck by how detailed and poetic passages were, especially the sections concerning Ye Wenjie and her past. Kudos to both the author and translator for crafting such beautiful scenes.
- This is the hardest sci-fi i've read, but it's also one of the easiest to understand sci-fi i've read. The play sessions within the "Three Body" game and the shooter-hunter hypotheses are elegant, concise ways of explaining complicated ideas.
- There's a great deal of empathy for just about all the characters. Like--even for characters doing undeniably terrible things, the author makes an effort to really help make their motivations and reasoning clear.
started: 12/17/21
ended: 12/18/21
thoughts:
- I had no idea what this book would be about when I picked it up; I saw it at a used bookstore, thought "Hey I've mostly liked Hugo award winning books, and it's half off" and that was that. Thankfully, it was an excellent read, easily the best book I've read this year.
- The prose is quite beautiful; I was frequently struck by how detailed and poetic passages were, especially the sections concerning Ye Wenjie and her past. Kudos to both the author and translator for crafting such beautiful scenes.
- This is the hardest sci-fi i've read, but it's also one of the easiest to understand sci-fi i've read. The play sessions within the "Three Body" game and the shooter-hunter hypotheses are elegant, concise ways of explaining complicated ideas.
- There's a great deal of empathy for just about all the characters. Like--even for characters doing undeniably terrible things, the author makes an effort to really help make their motivations and reasoning clear.
