My brother recently finished the trilogy and really enjoyed it. Then a coworker I haven’t seen in a year in a half (due to hybrid schedule I only see some co-workers at the Christmas Party) told me he had just read it and recommended it. Its apparently about preparing for an alien invasion force that will arrive in 200 years.
Also for any baseball fans GO RANGERS!!!!! My favorite team since childhood and only team not to do the pride crap. Hope they can finally get a World Series ring
I read about half of the Three Body Problem. I've read a decent amount of non-English literature in translation, and to me, some authors and cultures translate better than others.
Three Body Problem just struck me as very Chinese, for lack of a better term, in a way that I found jarring. Ultimately, I got bored and quit reading.
For an entirely different genre and a VERY different kind of book that I feel very succesfully translates a foreign culture and civilization to English, I would highly recommend "My Name is Red" by the Turkish author Orhan Pamuk.
Another one I would highly recommend is "The Name of the Rose" by Italian Umbero Eco. It's dense as hell, but it's a wild ride.
I’ve been extremely negative on Eco ever since I read his utterly retarded 14 features of fascism. Maybe I’ll check out his books.
I read Foucault's Pendulum in high school and I felt like someone locked me into an airtight tank filled with the author's farts. I'm sure Eco likes to huff them a lot but I wasn't a fan.
Eco's specialty was language, symbolism, literature, and the Medieval. The Name of the Rose combines all of that! It was perfect for me. I've tried to read two other Eco books and couldn't finish them.
Similarly, I admire Noam Chomsky's linguistics work for his originality and his contributions that have advanced even computer science. I do NOT admire--or care--about his political blatherings.
Cool! Thanks for the recommendation