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The Three-Body Problem

Liu Cixin · 2008

2 people have this book on the record — 1 of 2 verdicts positive. The dissent stays on the page.

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Rakhim Davletkaliyev read it
After first 20 minutes I was convinced this isn’t for me, but I decided to go a bit further and, oh man, I’m glad I did. This kind of science fiction is exactly what I was looking for and was missing for many years. It brings me back to my first encounters with engaging literature in childhood. The story takes you away not just into foreign lands, but into foreign ways of being, thinking and co…

on rakhim.org · 16 Aug 2026

Mark Manson loved it affiliate
It’s one of the best fiction experiences I’ve ever had in my life. A stunning achievement. And a must-read for anyone who is even remotely into sci-fi or nerdy space science stuff.

on markmanson.net · 1 Mar 2021

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.