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si0bhan's review
3.0
The Longest Fall was another interesting short story from Liu Cixin, one that is connected to another short story but works perfectly fine as a standalone story. As interesting as this one was, I never quite felt the connection to it that I had hoped for. I wanted to see how the pieces came together, but the characters failed to have an impact upon me.
All in all, another interesting story from the author, but not the best example of their work.
All in all, another interesting story from the author, but not the best example of their work.
peter__b's review
1.0
You'd expect someone who researched the concept of a tube through the middle of the earth to have come across the problem of air resistance. Sure, in a vacuum, you'd keep accelerating to the point where you'd come to a stop on the other side, but that's clearly not mentioned here.
Now that I have that rant out of the way, let's get down to the story itself. It's simply awful. It makes no sense on any level. People go after the father of the person who came up with the tunnel because that's just how upset they are. Apparently there were some difficulties during its construction that left a few people worse off, but instead of blaming the government or construction company, they go after the father of the inventor who even resigned from the project to take up a simple engineering role.
I'll be honest with you: I might have gotten dumber after reading this. I'm seriously disappointed that Goodreads doesn't allow 0-star or even negative-star ratings for the special garbage like this.
Now that I have that rant out of the way, let's get down to the story itself. It's simply awful. It makes no sense on any level. People go after the father of the person who came up with the tunnel because that's just how upset they are. Apparently there were some difficulties during its construction that left a few people worse off, but instead of blaming the government or construction company, they go after the father of the inventor who even resigned from the project to take up a simple engineering role.
I'll be honest with you: I might have gotten dumber after reading this. I'm seriously disappointed that Goodreads doesn't allow 0-star or even negative-star ratings for the special garbage like this.
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