What’s a piece of SF that you just couldn’t get into, even though you feel like you should?
I tried to watch Babylon 5, for instance, and just couldn’t connect to it. I know it’s popular and people love it, but it never hooked me.
Another is The Three Body Problem. I tried reading it after a friend’s glowing recommendation, but I couldn’t get past the first chapter. I even tried reading it in another language in case it was the translation I couldn’t connect with, but the same thing happened.
Both are things I feel like I should like, but just don’t.
I´m at the end of book two, about to start three. Actually the beginning is the best part because Ye Wenjie is the only character in the whole story that actually has a character, after that even the main characters are just cardboard cutouts and the story just ripples along. I keep reading anyway because every now and then Liu sprinkles in ideas that I have never heard of before in any science fiction universe.