The Dark Forest

by Liu Cixin

Book Overview

The inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem

Over 1 million copies of the Three-Body Problem series sold in North America

PRAISE FOR THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM SERIES: "A mind-bending epic."--The New York Times - "War of the Worlds for the 21st century."--The Wall Street Journal - "Fascinating."--TIME - "Extraordinary."--The New Yorker...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765386690
• ISBN13: 9780765386694
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Fantastically boring. Stupefyingly nonsensical. A baffling waste of potential.

"The Dark Forest" is a pretentious, drawn-out, uninteresting mess of a book which outdoes its predecessor in one critical aspect: its abject boringness. The excessive scientific explanations are still here kept company by the return of massive swaths of exposition. The book mostly reads like a history or science book. The “twists” are told, not experienced, there is no tension, no discovery, and no excitement. Things happen. Then more things happen. Main characters are uninteresting and barely fleshed out while secondary and peripheral characters may as well be cardboard cutouts. The timeline jumps by two hundred years two-thirds of the way through the story because the author was less concerned with telling a compelling story, having good characters, or a sensical plotline than with following the concept of the book to its pretentiously ridiculous and fantastically boring conclusion. The concept of the Wallfacers, the main crux of the novel, is unevenly handled and seemingly so uninteresting to the author that he almost immediately dismantles any utility it may have had. Just like its predecessor, this book is one best left at the bookstore.