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.

  • oo1@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    i did love dune, enjoyed the variety and dynamics; but i struggled with all the follow ups i think it just became more style, complexity and politics and there was not enough story left to drag me through it.
    (cf. War and Peace)

    • Durandal@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I really enjoy the philosophical and psychological study of humanity through sci-fi, so I enjoyed that thread through the whole series. I’ve read far too much of it lol. But I totally get it when people have to tap out… it’s a dense series of books.

      I have the same reaction to Lord of the Rings. I love the story, but I can’t slog through reading the books. The peter jackson films were a god send for me.