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Re:Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021? by hans0l074 on Friday December 24, 2021 @04:15AM (#29671892)
I second this. The Hail Mary Project was a great read and even made it into Barack Obama's list[1]. I am working my way through The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin and so far it's a page turner.

[1]: https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1471168495312420877

Re:Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021? by lmm on Friday December 24, 2021 @09:51AM (#29674040)
Curious, I wouldn't call Three-Body Problem a page turner - there was a whole lot of nothing happening the whole time. Even fans of the book (which I am not) tend to retreat into "well actually it's the sequels that are good".
Re:Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021? by qubitcoder on Friday December 24, 2021 @05:24PM (#29678347)
The Three-Body Problem certainly takes a _while_ to get going. I gave up the first time reading it on my phone. But I kept hearing others sing its praises.

Years later, I started playing the audio book on a roadtrip. At some point, I couldn't "put it down", so to speak--especially as the plot twist is gradually revealed. The sequels are extraordinary, and perhaps among the best sci-fi ever written.

Re:Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021? by kingcharles on Friday December 24, 2021 @01:36PM (#29676332)
I couldn't put the thing down. Then I had to immediately order the sequels. Different strokes for different folks. There have been plenty of books that people have recommended to me as page-turners and I just couldn't get through them at all.
Re:Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021? by therealdrag0 on Friday December 24, 2021 @03:33PM (#29677458)
Yep snooze fest for me too. DNF