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The name alludes to a book by Cixin Liu, the second in The Three Body Problem trilogy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IQO403K/

This is perhaps the best of a hundred scifi novels I've read in a few years. These novels will make you question the wisdom of sending traceable radio signals into space. Stay quiet, it's a dangerous Dark Forest out there.

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I am a bit baffled that people think about it so highly. I found three-body highly flawed, but at least moved at a good pace; I could barely get through the first few chapters of dark forest. The characters lacked any depth, the writing and structuring were very poor as well.

Unfortunately just having fascinating premise and good story is not good enough for me. I'd almost rather it be an essay, a thought experiment, than a book.

I'm in the same boat, I didn't enjoy the writing at all and could not progress very far.

To be fair, the version you read is likely translated from chinese.

Definitely a great book. Eagerly awaiting the final book later this year.

Thank you, I'm downloading the audiobook from Audible right now. Just in time for the evening commute!

You should start with the first one in the trilogy, "Three Body Problem". Both great reads, I'm excited for the third book to be translated in September.

I was sad when I finally finished the Dark Forest after listening to the three body problem on my walk to/from work.

I wasn't aware they'd gotten around to translating the second one! Thanks for the reminder.

Coincidentally I just finished reading this. Highly recommended for anyone interested in sci-fi!

And as usual, Kindle edition is more expensive than paperback :(

My kindle is literally covered in dust because of this.

Not to mention that with the paperback I own something, while with the kindle version I have a revokable license to download a DRM covered file...

As usual? I rarely see this...

My problem is how many Kindle books I see are $9 in the US store and then $30 in the Canadian store. For the same digital content :/

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