For me if I had to pick a good contender it would be the UK version of The Office.
I know many tend to debate how Ricky Gervais really fell off and how he repugnantly acts like a whiny centrist edgelord but me personally IMO I actually don’t think he was ever funny not even a little.
His big break through television was just so painful to sit through it’s so charismatically boring the characters are completely generic at best (notably Tim) or straight up insufferably unlikable at worst (especially the protagonist David FUCKING Brent) and most importantly the humour is just embarrassing.
Always seemed like The Thick Of It but without the nuisance tongue in cheek and charming satire.
3 body problem. What a fucking terrible shit waste of paper.
The worst part is that if you somehow drag yourself through the first book and rightly declare that it sucks, fans will all say “Oh, yeah, the first book is bad, but it gets sooooo much better after that!”
This is a fucking lie. The books actually get progressively worse at a genuinely shocking rate.
Do you like reading a series of Wikipedia articles about all these really cool ideas the author had? Do you like being slapped in the face with moments of truly egregious sexism? Do you like characters with zero defining traits? Do you like entire plotlines built around Death Note style “I know that you know that I know that you know that I know…” style bullshit that falls apart the moment you think about it for five seconds? Do you like like awful solutions to the Fermi Paradox? Oh boy do we have the book series for you!
this is the definitive review. 10/10, no notes.
I think I’ve read (or at least started reading) the book like three times and watched the show twice and I remember none of it
at least, I think it’s that one. might have it mixed up with something else.
The only answer I can’t understand. A great novel. I Chinese context was very fresh and interesting for me. Sometimes it seems amature, like fan fiction, like author is not a professional writer. But it makes it even better.
I mean, I think you explain the reasoning in your own comment, the writing (at least in the English translation for me) was so rough that I couldn’t get into it. I can’t say I hated it, I just never got far into it because it couldn’t keep my attention.
I’m surprised to hear someone say the poor writing was a plus for them. Why did that make you enjoy it more?
As I explained - it feeled fresh. I can’t explain why, but I can’t put it down while reading.
I don’t try to convince people, who read this book, that it’s great. I address people who haven’t - you should give it a chance.
Oh my God, I thought it was just me. I usually consume a lot of sci-fi media in general and was like, “why can’t I like this highly acclaimed work?”