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update - by vincent huang - a slice of my mind

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read more than usual, partially because i went home (texas) for a week and there wasn’t much else to do there. very mild spoilers ahead sirens of titan was strange. the first 80% of the book is poorly written in my opinion and essentially consists of characters doing very nonsensical and improbable things so that at the end vonnegut can say Actually There Was A Reason For All The Random Things. that being said the ending is very beautiful so overall i still thought it was worth it. my advice is to get through the first 80% as quickly as possible because the details are quite arbitrary and really do not matter finally read the three-body trilogy after putting it off for ~5 years! the three-body problem was cool because of the sheer number of ideas packed into it - drought cycles caused by a three-star system, an army using flags as nand gates to emulate a computer, a weird application of the one-electron theory, and so on - how does one person come up with all this? the dark forest was

read more than usual, partially because i went home (texas) for a week and there wasn’t much else to do there. very mild spoilers ahead sirens of titan was strange. the first 80% of the book is poorly written in my opinion and essentially consists of characters doing very nonsensical and improbable things so that at the end vonnegut can say Actually There Was A Reason For All The Random Things. that being said the ending is very beautiful so overall i still thought it was worth it. my advice is to get through the first 80% as quickly as possible because the details are quite arbitrary and…

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