The Three-Body Problem

I think I am going to continue to have problems with the prose in translations from Chinese. I have read a few now and I find all of them to be somewhat stilted and lacking the flow that I am used to. The concepts and ideas here are certainly vast, if tied up in an overly nationalistic propaganda. Tying together ideas of first contact with complex mathematical problems (the titular three body problem as an example) presented through a strange video game medium this is certainly unlike any other hard sci-fi I have read. I just wish I could have been engaged a bit better - I just found it all quite distant and hard to relate to.

I can see where the praise for this has come from and can respect the vastness of its scope. I will continue to read the series to try and get the fullest of pictures, but it is tonally a bit flat for me so far.