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Starship Troopers. Military wankfest
Anything that glorifies “isms”.
Rich Dad, Poor Dad. The author is over a billion in debt. Just constantly leveraging assets in a never-ending chain of debt.
The Martian
Anything and everything written by Ayn Rand.
i feel like i’m the only person in this thread who never knew anyone dumb enough to read that crap, let alone enjoy it or think it’s great.
I read Atlas Shrugged because the designer of Bioshock said it was the main inspiration for the game.
I didn’t realize they were making fun of it until after I read it. I don’t remember why I read The Fountainhead, but after that one I realized she just fucking sucks.
Every book used in education book studies
Worst book…
Bartleby, the Scrivener.
Written by Herman Melville, famously known as the author of “Moby Dick”.
Which is of course second worst book.
The Art of the Deal, by some Putz. I don’t know whatever happened to him.
I worked at a book store back a while now so people would ask and recommend books
The Secret was big at the time The Secret sucks ass I disliked any customer that recommended it to me after that I wouldn’t say that though, I’d thank them politely.
I usually recommended Neuromancer, but it depended on topic.
I remember it being a documentary instead of a book, but regardless, I’m embarrassed to admit that my family actually believed in it for awhile, as if a pile of money will just fall in your lap if you simply believe that it will. What a load of first world, white privilege, copium bullshit.
That accurately describes the people recommending the book all the time, yes.
The Case for Christ.
Gormenghast. I got about 100 pages in, bored off my ass, saw that I still had like 1000 more pages to go, and was just like “…nah, I’m good.”
The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Unrelenting mawkish sentimental slop with a big old dollop of new-age spirituality. Repulsive.
The Bible. Never read it.
Used to be a Catholic, have to say this one as well. Used to get in trouble for asking too many questions.
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand hands down. it’s like normal economics except they stripped away the mask that makes it look human.
I found a use for Atlas Shrugged, to kill wasps.
Good book to take with you to jury duty if you want to avoid being picked for jury duty. 😉
The 3 Body Problem. It’s trash and I’ll die on that hill.
100% agree, just listened to it recently and wow was it boring. That and Foundation, thought since liked the show that I’d like the books, wrong. Those are the only 2 books so far that I just couldn’t get into. But I suffered through to the end with both. Even started the second Foundation book and then asked myself why I was torturing myself.
LOL! totally agree about foundation. It was like he was so busy imagining the universe that he forgot to write a story. I Have been a big fan of the show though.
And it’s worth remembering what decade it was written in, a lot of the older prose and pacing hasn’t aged well.
Asimov was a sexist pig, so if you vibe with that, his writing is enjoyable. Otherwise, reading his works is a chore. Often prescient, but still a chore.
Haha that trilogy might be my favorite of all time but I also TOTALLY get that take. I’m just a big fucking sucker for the second and third books as they get increasingly ridiculous.
If the author totally doubles down on ludicrous, maybe it’s worth a go! I only barely got through the first book.
Totally worth it to read the second and third. The first book almost feels unrelated but it’s got some crucial context that gets built on to the extreme later Easily my top 5 sci-fi
I didn’t even make it through the first few chapters, Chinese writing style is just terribly convoluted and full of unnecessary pathos. Reminded me of some early 1700s literature from Britain, like Robinson Crusoe.
I can see that. I definitely gave it a huge benefit of the doubt, as it was the first post-revolution Chinese fiction-cum-political commentary I ever read. In retrospect I feel like the point of the book was the commentary and the story was just some kind of allegory that didn’t resonate as an American.
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The tencent tv adaptation was boring as hell lol, couldn’t get past like episode 8/30 as a native Mandarin speaker.
The netflix adaptation was far more enjoyable.
Also tencent cut out the cultural revolution scene from the book… boo… governments really stifles creativity.
You just don’t get 11 dimensional particle physics. I was actually into it up until that point. As soon as they pulled that shit, I would have quit but wanted to finish for our book club discussion.
LOL until they tried to explain to me that humanoid people just randomly rolled up like parchment and got carried around until things cooled down a bit, I was like, “OK I’ll keep an open mind to this weird political story.” And then when they figured out logic gates but only with 5th century hoards with flags, I just mentally noped out. I did finish the first book but I had regrets.
Humanoid didn’t roll up, that was just inside the game. The aliens weren’t humanoids
Humanoid didn’t roll up, that was just inside the game. The aliens weren’t humanoids
If that’s the case, that would A) have been explained in book 2 or 3 which I didn’t read, and/or B) conflict with clips I’ve seen from the show which showed thousands of them in a field waving flags just like from the book. Either way, it sounded stupid. Also, if they had interstellar spacecraft, why did they need post-revolutionary Chinese people to tell them “hey come here!!” before just leaving their fucked up system and find somewhere else to live?
I love you friend, but there is just so much wrong with 3 body problem.
I didn’t read books 2 or 3 either, and just limped to the end of book 1, but they do make it quite clear that the things depicted in the game are meant to be strange but not totally alien to the players. that’s why the leader was some ancient well know Chinese figure from folklore, despite that not being the actual name of the alien
figuring out binary logic wasn’t with flags, it explained in the book that in reality they reflected light with their bodies, but that’s super alien to humans so they used flags as an equivalent in the game
I agree though that the science and logic don’t follow with their decision making regarding earth. you could argue that with this godlike AI why didn’t they just go to the nearest uninhabited livable world instead of earth, and they kinda addressed it by explaining that the trisolarians (which is a way better name than the san-ti, Netflix) were scared of humanity so want to squash us before we can become another interstellar superpower
but I don’t buy it. I’m watching through the netflix adaptation now and I’m already disappointed in it. better in some ways for sure, but also presents its own brand new problems.
it’s a real shame, honestly, because the history of an alien civilization evolving on a planet in an unstable orbit of a three-body star system sounds really interesting, but the book cares less about world building than it does about political allegory 🤷
That’s fine, I’m not saying you should like it, I just want to explain it. The clips are from inside the game, and I thought they figured out aliens were not humanoid during the first book, but that was just in passing.
The Dark Forest book talks about how every civilization in the universe is trying to hide from each other, and when Earth sent that signal in the first book, everybody noticed Earth exists, and it was just a matter of time until some more powerful civilization would try to take advantage.
