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[protoindoeuropean]

Ugh I feel the same about the Three Body Problem, I heard such good things about it too

Yeah I don't really get the popularity of it. And I wanted it to be good! Like, the ideas are interesting, which carries it quite a bit – enough that I still want to finish the whole trilogy! – but I get so annoyed with it 😒

And I readily admit that it's also because the whole cynical and nihilistic outlook is not foreign to me at all, it's just that it's been so long since I've moved on from that and so reading about all that (again) just makes me mentally go "ok, move on already" as if talking to my cringy old self. And I know different people have different journeys wrt that, but all the characters who are supposed to be the smart ones seem to be caught in this same outlook and everyone just seems to agree that that's the most rational way of looking at the world and I just get so annoyed with that :/

And the writing is just ... not good. Idk I would like to say that it's the translation or that it's a different kind of storytelling tradition that I'm just not used to, but I really don't think that's it. If the dialogues feel unnatural, if at points you feel you're being recited a summary of what happened rather than actually experiencing what happened, then that's just bad writing 🤷‍♂️ I don't get it