Death's End
Ratings584
Average rating4.3
In between significant and smaller blind spots—including, like Goethe, promoting a stalker's idea of love—is a work of phenomenal imagination. It's the most absorbing book of the three, and excitingly explores ideas of humans in time and space.
Cixin Liu did something really impressive with this trilogy. Keeping the high quality throughout the 3 books is a great achievement, considering that a lot of series just go deep down after a second book .
The last 100 pages of this book were simply one of the most outstanding sections in all of three books. Such a dread and nostalgic sensation with all the memories of the old Earth.
Though the main character of the book is very naive and behave very odd for most of the situations , it did not compromise the whole experience of the story.
Lots of big ideas but I was quite bored for the last half of this substantial book.
I need time to write and collect my thoughts. Know that this was a magnificent read.
Eventually I'll write a proper review. But please read this. It's akin to cracking open your mind and filling it with a different view on the universe.
I cannot recall a series or individual book that had more imagination and wonder in it. I could not put these books down. I cannot recommend them enough.
Although it didn't hit the heights of Deaths End this brought the trilogy to a fantastic and satisfying conclusion. I'm at a loss to imagine how one could come up with a story as complex and intricate as this trilogy! This has been one of my favourite reading experiences in a long time and I can't wait to see what he does next.
Man, ...., I have the feeling I started to read this book an year ago, it is so diverse in action, ideas, and has so much in it to make you think or feel something, or both.
Just ... wait for it, I can say that even for 1/4 of the book.
No spoilers.
This guy is amazing, a true genius, super talented; the writer I mean, now will check what else is translated already.
Befitting grand ending to the trilogy that matches the grandeur of the Universe itself.
Epic in its sci-fi, bold in its philosophy, expansive in its politics, and wildly imaginative in its story.
Read this before Amazon starts making TV series out of them.
The first half was a weird slog of clumsy exposition and rampant sexism (and gender binarism generally) but I actually really enjoyed the ending. On the whole I have to admire this trilogy for the sheer scale of its ambition, even though I think there are ways it fell short of the mark.
what a slog, and a terrible finish to the series.
I recommend stopping at the second book, and I almost did myself, because it had an amazing end. Between the bad translation and the terrible narration (which I didn't subtract a star for), I was bored out of my mind for the first half of this book.
It did get better, but nowhere near as good as the first two books, and apart from the hibernation journey throughout the book, nothing really stood out.
A sobering conclusion to an amazing trilogy. Man does this go some weird places and introduce some fascinating concepts. Highly recommended if you like anything related to hard Sci fi and intruiging theoretical scientific concepts. Do it! =D
The character that this book follows is passive. At times, this made the story boring for me. Life goes on around her, and she doesn't do anything. She never experiences life - but skips through time by hibernating. The physics, or science, in this science fiction book is mostly unbelievable.
What an awesome book.
To put it simple as that statement above is probably the best one can do to describe this book. It is for sure the best book from this trilogy and also a perfect closure to it.
Highly recommend all three books especially once you know that this one is really wonderful.
The story is less cohesive than The Dark Forest but this is easily compensated for by the incredible creativity and inventiveness of Liu Cixin's plot. He slowly builds concept on concept until the most insane universe seems utterly plausible.The book that I can most closely compare this too isn't science fiction at all, it's Nick Bostrom's [b:Superintelligence 20527133 Superintelligence Paths, Dangers, Strategies Nick Bostrom https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1400884046s/20527133.jpg 37286000]. What Bostrom does with AI, Liu Cixin does with interstellar civilizations.Death's End is tough to read in an existential sense, but a very strong finish to the best sci-fi series I've ever read.