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Hey Beehaw (and friends)! What're you reading?

Novels, nonfiction, ebooks, audiobooks, graphic novels, etc - everything counts!

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[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Death’s End, which is part of the Three Body Problem series by Cixin Liu

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Three body problem series is fantastic in my opinion. I love that heavy sci-fi shit. And viewing the world from a different cultures perspective was fascinating.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. Without going into spoilers, the event that started the Deterrence Era blew my mind. It’s so rare to have an unexpected reversal like that in sci fi it really caught me by surprise.

I really wish I could read it in the original Chinese. The translator did a great job though.

[–] Overzeetop@beehaw.org 1 points 9 months ago

Well, now you're making me want to go back into the series. I liked the premise of the first, but found the writing foreign - which, hey, it is! I felt like I really should read more everyday Chinese fiction as I didn't understand a lot of the nuance and it felt less polished (to my American sensibilities) as a result.