Sravanesh’s Reviews > The Three-Body Problem > Status Update

Really one of the worst books I've read. It skips around so damn much between flashbacks, random plot reveals, and a horrendous villain/alien org that I really think that something was lost in translation as this book was originally written in Mandarin.

There's some serious loss in translation but we finally get an explanation and the crazy bitch behind the deaths, and the evil, traiterous org bent on helping aliens defeat its own planet. This book is a damn slog for about two thirds of it, and finally gets good. Probably going to end with this book though because I really cannot stand the prose which is translated from a very difficult language, Mandarin.

...wtf is this book...
Commander? Trisolaris? ...

Maybe it's because the book is translated from Mandarin but this is a very weird and boring book so far. The characters are dull and we are suddenly thrown into a crappy virtual reality game.

Really don't have much an idea of what this is about except a top scientist going into a Chinese defense program in the late 60s during the cultural revolution. The first couple chapters were rough, with graphic details of her dad being murdered by an angry red mob and some random girl dying. Keeping an open mind.