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[–] GrabtharsHammer 51 points 4 months ago (15 children)

Well it's a series, but Three body problem. It should have been right up my alley, but I got so tired of every decision by every character being stupid that I couldn't be bothered to read the last fifty pages of the last book.

Even if I charitably assumed the point of the book was to show that people are weak and stupid, the series was such a ham-handed strawman as to undercut its own commentary. And even worse, it had just enough interesting ideas to lead me to believe it was going somewhere worthwhile, but it never did.

It's been years and I'm still pissed off that I wasted a week on it.

[–] sanguinepar 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Not read the book, but isn't it meant to be quite dramatically different in some aspects? I'm sure I heard that all those annoying young adults characters were invented for the show? Someone who knows can correct me on that.

Agreed though that the show was a pile of crap. I enjoyed the first couple and quite enjoyed the last in the season, but the in between was pretty awful.

[–] GrabtharsHammer 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I couldn't tell you, TBH. I have only read the series of books.

[–] sanguinepar 1 points 4 months ago

Oh, sorry, I totally misread your post I thought you had seen the show but not read the books. My bad!

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