Reviews

The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

bookkee's review against another edition

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adventurous dark medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25


macaroniman's review

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adventurous challenging informative mysterious reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

romfinn's review

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dark informative tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Cool lens to view China’s history through, amazing translation and a scientific idea that Liu Cixin clearly wanted to explore but perhaps just needed characters to act as the host to be able to do it?? 

thalassemia's review

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medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

kaylyn_reads's review

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Honestly did not know what was going on and completely lost interest 

morpheus19's review

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adventurous challenging informative mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

saltymage's review against another edition

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challenging dark tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

aauok's review against another edition

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challenging dark tense slow-paced

4.0

zeev's review

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challenging dark informative mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot

5.0

salexander7341's review against another edition

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  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No

2.25

Revives 50s SF, where you want to write about a science idea so you introduce nanofilament-thin characters so they can just talk at length about it,