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BigHead posted:I'm plugging my way through The Dark Forest trilogy for the second time. It's pretty good sci fi. Also it is a look into Chinese culture where the Chinese culture isn't the star of the show. Like an American writing about Chinese culture will make the culture some big obstacle or spectacle or something. It's refreshing just reading what people do someplace that isn't my country. Although this author really leans into the trope of everyone getting a label and acting in accordance with that label. I’m enjoying it a lot too, it’s a very fresh perspective on what humans and aliens interacting might be like the first book dragged a bit before I got what was happening and then it really got to me in a good way there also are an awful lot of wise, older chinese men who take one look at a young women and how her face is pretty like the sun, on a starlit moonscape, like unto the golden days of yor, and he knew then she had to be mine “oh yes am I shall date you forever, oh wise older chinese guy, because of how hot a lady it is that I am” reminds me of this trope: 
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Szechwan posted:I just read the Dark Forest trilogy, which was pretty great but also a bit hard to get into due to the Chinese-to-English translation. The storytelling was kinda janky early on, particularly the simulation bit. I'm very afraid of what D&D do to it in the upcoming Netflix adaptation, but at least they have a completed work to build on. the trailer looks like the netflix show is focusing on the early set up in book one and the mystery of “what’s happening” is the hook, that could be good
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Blood Meridian was an intense read, I can’t imagine a movie adaptation being as dark as needed. Not sure I even want to see that on a screen personally. I tried to read Sutree next and couldn’t get past the bunch of drunk homeless guys wacking off in a boat, like I’m sure there is some kind of really great deep artistic thematic something something going on but just, too much boat spanking
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Aliensandwich posted:I've been chipping away at Blood Meridian over the past couple of months. I always want to chug a glass of water and take a shower after every couple of chapters. it is an amazing work of art but it made me fell like, a bad person
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I read The Fold at this thread’s recommendation good light sci fi romp, wouldn’t mind more in that universe if the author had some more in mind
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