The Three-Body Problem

This is a really hard book to rate. On one hand it's good, and yet on another its unbelievably boring. I knew halfway through that I'd finish the first part but not bother with the last two, and that stayed through until the end.

If there had been more to the characters I might've been more interested, but as they were the characters were simply the means to move the plot forward, and the plot felt like it was simply a device with which to explore different ideas in physics. 

And the aliens.... Classic bad guys.