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Reached the end & wow, was it a wild ride. I don't read a lot of SF (I should fix that) so I can't compare, but suffice to say this blew my mind (enough that I should do a reread). I love the vastness of the ideas explored here, & the realism & beauty of the human endeavour: we are always both everything & nothing all at once. Also makes you think about bleak stuff like ethnic-cleansing (species-cleansing!) & the inherent violence of the universe.

Wow What a Trilogy! Reading these books was like going on a pilgrimage! Holy experience and journey for me! I would have missed a lot if I had never read the trilogy

Really not sure what to think about this. I somehow missed a real plot in here, or maybe I just didn't get it. Things keep on happening (many, many years go by) and I keep on asking myself where all of this is going... 🤔 Also, is it just me or does Cixin Liu have a weird relationship to women? I just couldn't get this out of my mind.

Yes, I'm happy that I finished the trilogy. And yes, I'm still thinking of getting the fourth novel as well 😅

great ending to a phenomenal series

This book was intense! check out our looong discussing about it along with awarding depression points on our podcast: Mind Duck Books episode 7: https://mindduckbooks.com/2022/01/23/7-deaths-end-by-cixin-liu/

This is the final book in what is probably the best science fiction trilogy I‘ve ever read. The books get better and better and they are all really good. IMO, this final one is the best.

The ultimate fate of all intelligent beings has always been to become as grand as their thoughts

I can‘t say that many books have changed me. Death‘s End rocked me to my core and changed me. This book is filled with wonderful and brave characters. While some of the technical paragraphs were extremely challenging to read the narrative arc is out of this world. Please do yourself a favour and read these books. You will cry you, you will be challenged, you will be entertained, you will love and you will become a better human ❤️

Whatever people do, the gods remember.

Unbelievably creative and engrossing sci-fi. Liu often gets bogged down in the technical details of some of his futuristic concepts, which might turn some off, but I actually really appreciated his obvious depth of physics and astronomical knowledge and found even those parts interesting. Also packed with keen sociological insight.

DEATH‘S END slides between seriously cool and deathly tedious, largely due to Liu‘s tell-not-show style. The ideas are good, but the characterization falls flat with everyone except the lead—and even she‘s debatable. I think some of that is cultural divide, but some of it‘s just that Liu and I like different takes on SF. I‘m always gonna chose character-centric over idea-centric

Still, this is worth reading if you‘ve invested time in the trilogy.

Brilliant and devastating. The best of the trilogy

Finally on the last book of the trilogy. This story is excellent, but I feel like each book stoutly plods along until it picks up the pace near the end. Not a bad thing, mind you, but good to know so you know if it suits your current reading mood.

This one explodes the scope of the first two to create an epic, but ultimately unsatisfying, conclusion of the trilogy. There were some terrific sequences and I like the headiness, yet i could have foregone the "Gone with the Wind" reference providing a lynch-pin aphorism for humanity and the 2001 a Space Odessey never ending ending. This only gets a so-so and a slap on the hand of the editor- this should have been streamlined!

I just ordered this last installment with an Amazon gift card I received, and I am finally home to my little family! Nothing to do but read for a week 😎

The male chauvinism bothered me more than in the first two in the trilogy, but it‘s still a pick. Occasionally the writing dragged me down—“For all low-entropy entities, terror guaranteed existence”—&—“They locked gazes and their souls embraced.” Female aerospace engineer Cheng Xin is a great MC (in a large cast) & the scope is breathtaking: this volume starts in 15th century Turkey and ends millions of years later. #translation #audiobook

“We‘ll send only a brain.” Without that statement, everything that was happening now would have nothing to do with her. She would have been a common woman and would have died more than two centuries ago. Everything about her would have disappeared upstream, in time‘s long river.

(Internet photo of the North Saskatchewan, which runs through my home city.)

This took me entirely too long to finish (5 months 😱), but it‘s 29 hours of highly cerebral science fiction and I kept having to return it to the library, then wait for the loan to renew. I liked this better than the second book and as much as the first. I can‘t say I understood everything that happened, but I thought the writing was beautiful (many thanks to Ken Liu who is an awesome translator). 3.5/5 stars, rounded up for books #intranslation

Ok I‘m reading three books at the moment- this being one of them. The other two are O pioneers - Americana at it‘s finest, and a brilliant graphic novel, Future Arab. It hit me today what they all have in common... any Litten brave enough to guess? Comment below!

A useful reminder

Finished. I think the last time I was both frustrated and fascinated at the same time by a story was the end of David Brin‘s uplift series and I cannot explain why without spoilers. So I will simply say this book has a different focus from the first two books in the series, less about the trilsolarans, less about the dark forest, more about bigger questions on the nature of the universe. A pick for the ideas if not the storyline.

A masterpiece. The author seems to have transcended human constraints and is possessed of an unmatched ability to spin an other-worldly narrative. Deep, incisive, creative!

Wow, that plot twist came out of left field. This series just keeps defying my expectations

This is my new standard of Sci Fi books. With the utmost respect to all of its predecessors, I proclaim that the bar has been raised and its heading toward DX3906 never to be seen again by Earth. I look forward to rereading the series to pick up the pieces of my blown mind I left behind.

OK, I wound up loving this trilogy. The third is probably my favorite, and once again, by the end of it, my mind had totally melted about the possibilities of space travel, potential other intelligent races that (statistically-speaking) could technically exist in just our solar system, etc etc. Thanks @NotDrWatson for recommending it :).

July so far is a very busy month. Not as much time to read and not as much time to post about it. Sigh.

This is one book I did finish. It's a pick for me, the last in a trilogy all of which I thought was very good. It's a first contact story and it didn't quite end up where I thought it would.

This checks some reading goal boxes for me though! #yearofthechunkster #finishtheseries #mountTBRchallenge @DivaDiane

This entire series was completely mind blowing. It took me a while to get through the third book just because of all the science and the math went into all the detail. The storyline diverts a bit then comes back around and the characters all connect to each other and the result is an epic speculative fiction extravaganza. All the stars for this series! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Dammit. In immersing myself in this book, I‘ve been googling background questions to understand the story better. A major plot twist was revealed! 😡

Why is this so friggin' good?!? Just started it, but already don't want it to ever end.

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3) I've lived in the same state for 35 of my 39 years & in Kansas City specifically for 18 years
4) Gabe Habash "Stephen Florida" & Cixin Liu's "Death's End"
5) If I look irritated, please see answer #1
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When you read a really good book, do you read it slowly and savor it or do you devour it to find out what happens? 📖

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👽 #ThisRemindsMeOf my current read, Death‘s End by Cixin Liu. This is the final book in the Remembrance of Earth‘s Past Trilogy 👽
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I read the entire Three-Body trilogy over the past few weeks. I‘m glad to have read them despite being unsure what I think about them except irritated by the increasingly apparent embedded misogyny. I‘ll have to let the rest digest.

Christmas book haul part one. Plus fifty dollars in gift cards.

I'm not a fan of all these wrapped up books!

But maybe it's a way to keep these books looking #sharp
#anditsaugust

Okayish... I guess? I liked it but I didn't like it enough to read anywhere except the train to work.
No space ducks though, disappointed again 😂

light #sundayreading

conscience and duty

What is more #farflung than the Milky Way galaxy? Although I like the Chinese name better - Silver River. #maybookflowers 🌌

I'm spending some alone time to start this monster of a book! #introverting #maybookflowers

Still plugging away at this doorstopper. So here, have another Mr Bingley. #catsoflitsy

Mr Bingley is patiently waiting for me to stop reading.

Quiz!
a) Do you enjoy scifi?
- if No, why are you reading this? :D
- if Yes, proceed to b

b) Have you read The Three Body Problem?
- if No, proceed to the bookstore and rectify this mistake
- if Yes, proceed to c

c) Have you read The Dark Forest or Death's End?
- if No, go back to part 1 of b
- if Yes, you just won.

If you want to find out what winning means and read the full review: http://avalinahsbooks.space/liu-cixins-deaths-end/

This book is the last in the "Three Body Problem" trilogy. It is a worthy final volume. The trilogy is compendium of science fiction ideas. Much of the fun of reading the three books derives from this fact. This final book is more of wild romp than the other two.

My two TBR #doorstoppers have 1488 pages combined! #riotgrams

The scope of this novel just blows my mind! There's the conclusion of the Trisolaran crisis but so much more! I don't actually know how to talk about this book without talking about the whole trilogy but I'm so amazed. If you like smart science and technology in your sci-fi and detailed world building pick up this trilogy! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

And here is where a Chinese Science fiction novel quotes Gone with the Wind! This is why I love books

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Whoa physics whoa. So much hard Sci-fi! Still enjoying this tho so many things I have to Google!