The Three-Body Problem

My only major gripe with this book is the characters. Most of them feel wooden, emotionless, and shallow. It's pretty typically stuff for hard sci-fi like this, so I suppose I'm used to it. It would certainly be a bigger problem for someone less familiar. I also had a hard time getting invested in the opening. The book didn't capture me, and I definitely had to work at it for awhile, before the story began to open-up. And boy, did it. 

There are some complex and imaginative ideas in this book, that are slowed revealed in a satisfying way. I enjoyed the concept that, no matter how technologically advanced another species is, they still have many of the same concerns that we do. They act like we do: with self-interest.
It was great to read/learn about the Chinese Revolution with a non-western lens. That lens is such an interesting way to explore the standard sci-fi tropes. For lack of a better term, it just felt different than most other science fiction novels I have read.