What’s something that you feel like you should like, but for some reason can’t get into, no matter how many chances you give it?

For me, it’s The Three Body Problem. It should be right up my alley from everything I’ve heard about it (especially the second book, which looks at the Fermi Paradox and the Great Filter!), but for the life of me, I can’t get past the first chapter at all. I even tried reading it in another language to see if it was the translation that kept me from getting into it, and nope.

    • HipPriest@kbin.social
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      10 months ago

      I like the first but it is very heavy on world building at the expense of anything else - I guess in some respects you could apply that to the series as a whole to an extent.

      I haven’t read the whole series btw, just guessing that from the ones I have read

      • Bebo@sh.itjust.works
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        10 months ago

        I personally do enjoy world building, but not at the cost of characterisation. So I guess this series is definitely not for me.

        • HipPriest@kbin.social
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          10 months ago

          Possibly not lol! The character motivation obviously develops throughout the book (I forget his name), but I’d say the focus is on the extremely weird things he sees and what he has to do to survive. I don’t remember there being much in the way of emotional development though.

          I don’t know how far you got before stopping. I think they are definitely well written books - but I definitely have to be in the right headspace to enjoy them