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Three Body Problem (Netflix)
(lemmy.world)
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Yeah, the author is really good at coming up with fun ideas but also comes up with a lot of meh ideas that he is equally enamored with, and as the series progressed the editors seem to have grown increasingly ineffective at cutting out the meh ideas which made large swaths of the books a bit of a slog. When I read the third book I skimmed through a lot of the slog so I'd forgotten how much of it there was, but when I tried listening to the audiobook I had to give up because there was so much slog and it a lot harder to skim through in that format.
If I had to speculate on the reason for this, I'd say it was because the author and/or the series became so popular that the editors were to afraid to really push back in the later books; I've gotten the impression that this is actually a pretty common phenomenon in the publishing world.