/lit/ - Literature

I've read awful reviews, and reading the first pages didn't convince me otherwise

I did, and I'm happy everybody hates it because I like it when people are deprived of good things.

>>11173919
It's really quite fantastic. A wonderful breath of fresh air amongst the stagnant shit of contemporary sci-fi. the later parts of the trilogy are the most interesting.

>>11176049
Yeah, 3-Body is the worst one, but you wouldn't know that unless you read the rest because it's on its own better than 90% of the trash I read last year.

I only read english or american literature and dont care about foreign shit

>>11173919
re-reading it nao, but jesus christ i get tired of chinese authors whining about the cultural revolution.

it's like that one Iranian woman in our short story class. she would begin by asking an off-topic question and then turn it into a forty minute rant about how the great and noble Iranian people were betrayed by.. well, she wasn't very clear on that. but she was passionate. bitch would NOT shut up, and the classes only ran for fifty minutes.

>tfw Web tried to get dad to read these books because I really like talking science with him
>he didn't because he doesn't love me and never did

Great ideas etc pacing was horrific imo. Characters kinda stilted and anime-ish.

>>11176049
Agreed
>>11176080
Rer Clarke would too, was in preference of penis

>>11173919
>best books post 2000s.
Because I still have a lot to read of the best books pre-2000.

>>11176229
how many chinese authors have you read??

I don't waste time with genreshit

I heard the English translation inaccurately adds feminism.

Best post-2000 sci fi I've read

>>11176229
you should write a good, tragic story about operation ajax to get her cunt sweaty and then fuck her proud iranian pussy

>>11173919
>sci-fi

I have it on my Kindle and never bothered with it at all. Probably I'm not into sci-fi as I used to.

Death's End is the worst of the trilogy. Cheng Xin a shit.

if Nick Land likes it then it's probably shit

>>11173919
they're on my to-read list

>>11173919
Currently reading it right now, and I really dislike it.

>>11173919
His style is atrocious. I'm sure part of it's the translation, but man, I don't have to put up with this shit.

>>11176796
That's the only think you really have to know about these books.

>>11173919
stopped a quarter of the way through...
Everything feels so forced, the story is so obviously created for the narrative, the same way that a spooky campfire story is.

Literature is simply incompatible with Eastern written languages, and I think people who learn eastern langauges as their first language have an inability to process literature in the same sense that we can.

>>11176796
We'll never know if there really was a 2D civilization on tour...dick move.

>>11177008
This stubbornness needs to be a /lit/ banner.

>>11176796
>Cheng Xin a shit.

>>11173919
Because it's sci-fi

>>11179621

what the fuck are you talking about. mishima alone is obviously great literature.

I am honestly so spooked about anything Chinese becoming culturally significant, I've avoided this for the most petty reasons.

>>11176229
>whining about the cultural revolution.
fucking thank you. I said this in a thread the other day and everyone acted like I was speaking Greek. Every popular Chinese book of the last 10 years revolves around the fucking cultural revolution.

>>11180729
What is "the cultural revolution"? What is the status quo and what does the revolution want to affect?

>>11180733
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution

>>11180373
>>11179621
The two most important eastern writers of the last 100 years both spoke English and studied English literature.
[YouTube] Yukio Mishima Speaking In English (embed)

>>11180373
>>11179621
The two most important eastern writers of the last 100 years both spoke English and studied English literature.
https://youtu.be/DPAZQ6mhRcU

>>11180729
The Cultural Revolution in 3-body is a device to give the main the motivation to do what she does. She's so sickened by it that she fucks humanity, hard.

>>11180733
>What is "the cultural revolution"?
Was this a sincere question? I'm actually stunned right now there are people who don't know what that was. And I'm a burger! We don't know anything!

>>11180769
Now I know, and I never made an ass out of myself for not knowing the whole time I didn't know. Going to try my hardest to follow the example you set and avoid that pitfall now that I do know, nimrod.

>>11180765
I get that it's not about the cultural revolution but at this point if I read a synopsis of a Chinese novel and it has "cultural revolution" in it, it kills all my interest.