A review by koberreads
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Fit for people who are interested in hard scifi

The best kind of Scifi in this modern era that has the immense beautiful scale like no other. If you are remotely even interested in Scifi or had that curious moment during science class, you would love this book. And if you do, you might love also the next two books. 

This Trilogy of Cixin is the one of the best modern scifi ever yet to be penned.  

Dashi is one of my fav characters.
Much more redeemable, calmer, and down to eather, who cares if he is not as smart as too well. That is why he is not going crazy because unlike the scientist. They understand too well. He can save scientist by just being with them hahaha. 

 Unpopular advice:
So far books that turn into Netflix films are all promising books and can stand by itself
if you want to find  your next best read go look at the netflix made films and check if they are inspired by books. Some great examples:
- "Three body problem"
- "All the light we cannot see" derived from Pulitzer prize winning book by Anthony Doer with the same time
- "Gentleman in Moscow" derived from the book by the same title by Amor Towles

A lesson from Cixin to us in the postscript of this book:
There’s a strange contradiction revealed by the naïveté and kindness demonstrated by humanity when faced with the universe: On Earth, humankind can step onto another continent, and without a thought, destroy the kindred civilizations found there through warfare and disease. But when they gaze up at the stars, they turn sentimental and believe that if extraterrestrial intelligences exist, they must be civilizations bound by universal, noble, moral constraints, as if cherishing and loving different forms of life are parts of a self-evident universal code of conduct. I think it should be precisely the opposite: Let’s turn the kindness we show toward the stars to members of the human race on Earth and build up the trust and understanding between the different peoples and civilizations that make up humanity. But for the universe outside the solar system, we should be ever vigilant, and be ready to attribute the worst of intentions to any Others that might exist in space. For a fragile civilization like ours, this is without a doubt the most responsible path


A message from Cixin to us in the postscript of this book
As a fan of science fiction, it has molded my life, and a considerable part of the science fiction I’ve read comes from America. The fact that American readers can now enjoy my book makes me both pleased and excited. Science fiction is a literature that belongs to all humankind. It portrays events of interest to all of humanity, and thus science fiction should be the literary genre most accessible to readers of different nations. Science fiction often describes a day when humanity will form a harmonious whole, and I believe
the arrival of such a day need not wait for the appearance of extraterrestrials