Like 3 years ago, it is conceptually a good book, fascinating actually but the writing style is so robotic and don’t get me wrong, but for me at least, it was at first a little disorienting to follow Chinese names.
I had to push through to finish it.
A month and a half ago I started reading again, something light, Murderbot diaries, follow it with Project Hail Mary, then All Tomorrows. The first one very short, fast paced, PHM not that short but very entertaining, it kept me glued to the page, the All Tomorrows, not my cup of tea but short and somewhat bizarre.
People kept telling me The Dark Forest was better than TBP, with my reading slump over, I decided to give it a try.
With the 3 first books I read every second I had free, I finished them in two weeks, started TDF almost a 3 weeks ago and I’m starting to feel like I felt with The Three Body Problem made feel before, a little bored and like I have to push through.
I don’t like books that I don’t feel compelled to read and feel more like a chore. Anyways, rant over.
I know people can get quite defensive about this book on reddit. But if it is any comfort, I didn’t like it either. While many say it gets better and better, I thought every reveal just made it sillier.
I didn’t feel it was silly, but at each reveal I was like, “I suffered through all of that narrative for THAT?” I made it through to the end, but did not consider it to be worth it.
I was more like, THATS IT??? mediocre sci fi at best. overly lengthy prose that never gets to the point.
The second book is worse because the reveal doesn’t even make sense.
Spoiler below
Basically the main character established some kind of mutually assured destruction without any Sophon realizing what he was doing. Even though some of the logical steps the other people were taking were far more intricate.
The whole book was one giant cliffhanger that had me thinking ”Wait they didn’t catch that!". I never read the third book