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The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu

This was an underwhelming book. I found the writing and characters to be the most disappointing parts of the book. The big ideas imagined and the suspense held the middle portion of the book together, but the book's starting and ending were particularly dull. The most interesting part of this story was the grand sci-fi… Continue reading The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu

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The Gulag Archipelago Volume 3 by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

I have finally finished reading Alexandr Solzhenitsyn's life-defining series. Reading all three books is a big achievement, and I feel incredibly pleased. All in all, the series exceeded two thousand pages. If reading the entire series is such a big achievement, can you imagine how big the achievement of writing it would have been? The series attempts… Continue reading The Gulag Archipelago Volume 3 by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn