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

Only the very beginning that takes place during China’s cultural revolution is interesting. Characters and plot seem to be mere afterthoughts. Lots of talk about physics. Too much time spent on a virtual reality game. Hard to keep track of who is who. Even the characters don’t know if someone is male or female based on their Chinese name, so there’s no hope for an English speaker. It has been a slog to read.