Recommendations you can check.
by Liu Cixin, 2008
Who uses, recommends or left The Three-Body Problem, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.
3 people
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.
Manson’s post reviewing 114 books he had read in recent years, one paragraph each; the book links are Amazon affiliate links (tag=entsblo-20).
2021-03-01·markmanson.net ↗
What was once science fiction is now a reality, which is why I’m highlighting The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu.
In his Khan Academy blog post "Five Book Recommendations from Sal", listing books he has recommended to the Khan Academy community
2025-02-26·blog.khanacademy.org ↗
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 his public bookshelf, with his comment.
2026-08-16·rakhim.org ↗
Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.
The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
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What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:
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