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title: 'The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)'
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<b>Author:</b> Liu Cixin</br>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1205161889?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss">See in goodreads</a>
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<h3>Review:</h3>
<p>It's very good. It's also surprisingly difficult to read because of the missing resonance of the cultural and historical references. Sure, I know about Marie Curie, but what happens when a character mentions Wu Chien-Shiung "went even further than Marie Curie"? Sure, she went further because she became a physicist after Marie Curie died! Why is she even brought up?<br /><br />Is that some inherent chinese chauvinism in the original text? I have no idea, but I prefer to take it as an extra opportunity: a novel about alien contact written by a mildly alien writer. Sure, a "real" alien would be much different, in fact it would probably be unintelligible to me. So this is the mild substitute.<br /><br />I liked it a lot.</p>
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