The Three-Body Problem

The Three-Body Problem, it's a good intro to a great series, but as an individual book, is it better than Children of Time?

I thought they were okay when I read them and I mean it's been a few years. I need to reread them really and to reevaluate but I you know I wouldn't say I love them or anything but I quite like them.

But the threebody problem is notoriously difficult to get throughbecause while the ideas are fantastic, there is really flat characters.

I love the three Bob problem and it sequels but I only own the first book

I've read like the three body problem which I liked

I also have the first book in the three body problem Trilogy which I did really enjoy

I still think the characters are very flat. They serve the ideas but fail to really jump off the page. All that in-game simulation stuff, the reveal of weird advanced technology, the bigger picture of future alien contact, and the unusual, to me at least, Chinese angle was compelling.