The Wave of Books Problem

I was looking for another book to delve into until again my Game of Thrones becomes available, and I came across The Three-Bodied Problem. After checking it out and finishing up the tail end of Think Like a Freak, I managed to completely forget the synopsis of The Three-Bodied Problem. All I could recall was that it sounded interesting enough for me to pick it as my next book, but beyond that, absolutely nothing about the synopsis was remembered.

So, if you pick up this book and start reading without reading the synopsis, or forgetting the synopsis like I did, it's going to come off as a very trippy book. Now that I'm a couple parts into the book and thinking about it while at a computer, I looked up the synopsis again and still find it to be a bit of a trippy book, although now things are starting to make sense, and I remember why I picked out this book in the first place.

I now realize that I know absolutely nothing about China's history over the past few decades. I also realize I how much I hate stupid, nonsensical revolutions. The first couple chapters reminded me of The Wave, which classroom experiment my own Honors World History teacher* utilized in a smaller, more controlled fashion to introduce our classes to WWII. I had read The Good Earth as part of that same class, but, as that book cover says, it's set in pre-revolutionary China, so I have little knowledge of the revolutionary China period. This book, The Three-Bodied Problem, is my first introduction to it, and I'm now interested in learning more about the details. I love it when a book can manage to pique my interest in a new subject like that.

( * About That Teacher )