What’s something that you feel like you should like, but for some reason can’t get into, no matter how many chances you give it?
For me, it’s The Three Body Problem. It should be right up my alley from everything I’ve heard about it (especially the second book, which looks at the Fermi Paradox and the Great Filter!), but for the life of me, I can’t get past the first chapter at all. I even tried reading it in another language to see if it was the translation that kept me from getting into it, and nope.
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I read it.
I’ll do it again. You can’t stop me.
Im sorry but Star Wars. Some stuff is freaking cool, like the whole smuggler side, but it’s something about mixing magic and scifi that rubs me the wrong way. Also, lightsabers are so… toylike.
Rick & Morty.
Watched the first season but I just can’t get past how awful Rick is. All the constant burping and how much of an asshole he his really puts me off the whole thing.
Foundation stopped me from finishing for 20 years until I could get it on audiobook, and even then it was a slog. All the politics in that book are simply not what I’m after when it comes to sci-fi, even if I can acknowledge that it’s a fantastic piece of work.
The beginning of 3BP is very, very dry and slow. There’s a lot of exposition, and a massive amount of footnotes (which I personally found very helpful as like many westerners, I have extremely limited knowledge of Chinese history).
I highly recommend persevering and soldiering on, there’s a reason why it’s very highly rated. One of my favourite series and totally made me do a 180 on my opinion of SETI.
