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My opinion:
- Interesting concept of a Dark Forest & cosmic sociology axioms.
- Unpleasant characters: Ye Wenjie (narcissistic and psychopathic), Cheng Xin (a kind billionaire lol).
- Disappointing ending—the last few chapters feel weak.
Bonus: Absolutely fascinating interpretation of the first book by @[email protected].
Spoiler
::: SPOILER SPOILER The wallbreaker stuff is awful, and it gets even worse when you realise that absolutely nothing about Luo Ji’s plan benefits from secrecy. Like, all the other wallbreakers are actually doing something that involves trying to deceive Trisolaris, but Luo Ji’s idea actually gets more powerful the more people know about it. Ninety percent of the conflict in Dark Forest is solved if he just publicly announces his theory the moment he comes up with it. In fact there’s actually a simpler and faster way for him to test his theory than using his Spell, and it prevents the invasion from ever happening, which is just to assume its true and announce his demands. If Trisolaris buys into the hypothesis, they back down, and if they don’t then it doesn’t actually matter if its true or not. :::
Did you read the books? They’re called Wallfacers. For a reason. The Trisolarans are aware of the plan, otherwise it wouldn’t work.