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Book: The Three Body Problem

It's highly praised here. The characters are very dry and boring to me, not sure if it's the translation. I genuinely did not care about a single one of them. Neal Stephenson did something similar as he became famous - stopped writing novels and tried to pass off his futurism as such, which is interesting, but not an exciting story. That was the case here. I can't even bring myself to read the second book.

Also, all the higher/lower dimensional space sort-of-scientific stuff is pretty speculative. Or I don't understand enough science.

In other words, my expectations were too high and I was disappointed.

Book: A Deepness in the Sky

Enjoyed this. The characters were more alive. Nothing amazing about it though, not captivated enough to read sequel.