The Three-Body Problem

I had heard alot about this book from booktube and have been wanting to read more scifi.

As the title alludes to this is a book focused on physics as the basis for telling the overall narrative.

I love reading up on physics and what the math tells us and always find that a intersting topic to read up on. That being said however this is for sure a hard scifi with alot of math and physics involved in the book. Virtually and entire chapter is essentially a science paper and I would say about half this book is all about explaining these scienctific concepts and ideas which for me really detract from the narrative progession overall. It almost feels like if you took all the science explanations out of the book what you would be left with is a summary of the narrative

I do however love the overall big ideas behind this story and plot. The books ideas focused around progression of civilization and enviromental ideology are explored in this work and are a focus for much of the narrative.

I did enjoy getting some insight into the chinese communist cultural revolution and how that movement in china impacted or influence science in china

I have heard this book described as influenced by classic scifi, big ideas but not alot of character development, which is certainly true for this book. it was a very narrative driven story, not character but could have spent less time on the science and more time on plot development and story progression would have made this better for me personally.

Plus: big idea scifi that makes for a compelling and good read

Minus: long winded science based explanations and info dumps and flat 2 dimensional characters