For me it's Metro 2033 by Dmitriy Glukhovskiy, which is 500 pages long

  • commiespammer@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Read the first two. Some guy once pointed out that the Dark Forest hypothesis rests on the assumption that communication is slower and more expensive than instantaneous destruction, which is false.

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      I wish i only read the first two, they were great, but third is absolute garbage, guy ran out of ideas for plot and instead presented one of two nead ideas he had left along some really weird shit mixed with wide plethora of apocalyptic scenarios broken by some really tedious nothing parts. There's also 4th book written by other author and accepted by original one which straightens out the ending dud, but i would still rather not read it at all.

      • commiespammer@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        Some people like it for its scale. It's a matter of taste I guess, since it's held in great esteem as far as I know in China.

        • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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          1 year ago

          Yeah the scale is huge but again we rapidly move from Sol-Alpha Centauri scale to universe level catalcysm. and god's eye over entirety of spacetime. About the esteem afaik it's the first modern Chinese book becoming really worldwide bestseller, of course they will held it in great esteem. Poland had the same phenomenon with Andrzej Sapkowski and his books are even more uneven with good start but by the last 2 the quality is in freefall.

          Overall the thing i get from the issue with TBP series is that the "3rd book curse" is universal in every culture.