The Three-Body Problem

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I was very intrigued by the setting in the Chinese cultural revolution. The story doesn't stay there for long unfortunately. I was very intrigued by the mystery that gets set up early where the universe ‘blinks'. I really had no idea how the author was going to pull off a satisfying explanation, but assumed they would bc of the amount of praise the book receives. Well I was wrong. I slogged through the middle 2/3 of the book to just be completely let down. The explanation is that it doesn't, its just a magic computer inside of proton or whatever. Just utterly stupid.