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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday December 27 2016, @11:30AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday December 27 2016, @11:30AM (#446306) Journal

    Back in the day, I would read two to six books every week. Some trash, some great classics, some reference, some technical - I was always reading. Nowadays, a book every couple weeks. With the web, I can find things that interest me - like this site. Before the web, there was radio, phonograph, television - none of which kept my mind busy.

    Best book(s) last year? Cixin Liu's 'Three Body Problem' series. I'm still waiting for the fourth book to come out. Maybe I'll check on that now . . . . no, not yet.

    It seems that the name of the series is 'Remembrance of Earth's Past'. I am quite certain that it was simply tagged 'The Three Body Problem' when I started reading it. Ehhh - marketing, I suppose. That doesn't change the content, I'm sure.

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  • (Score: 1) by charon on Saturday December 31 2016, @12:30AM

    by charon (5660) on Saturday December 31 2016, @12:30AM (#447674) Journal
    I really loved the first one; I think it's a brilliant book. The second one I did not like as well, but chalked it up to a different translator. The third one I felt was pretty meh overall. Kind of a disappointing finish after how excited I was by Three Body Problem.