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Finished it yesterday and it pales in comparison to S1.

A real shame as it was pretty solid until the trip to Korea, everything there and beyond really was a travesty.

You can't get the audience invested in it and then slap them in the face with illogical character arc decisions.

Josh - Best arc in the end for me.

Lindsay - In a marriage, doubt it's a happy one.

Austin - Trapped himself elegantly

Ashley - Got off lightly

Chairwoman Park — Offs her Stepson Woosh brutally yet ends up just a soft and thoughtful old lady who occasionally dips into crime.

Dr. Kim — Can only assume they forgot how they wrote him and decided to start again randomly.

Eunice - Don't even ask. They ran out of pencils to write any material for the end?

Okayyyy fellow fans. I finally finished book 1 having already seen the TV series first.

I am most impressed how they adapted major science plot points into the TV adaptation in digestible form.

Secondly how greatly enhanced the book narrative became as the story of the quirky set of Cambridge post grads. Hats off to the writers and producers there.

Lastly, the vivid quality of the 3 body computer game in the TV series is a much more thrilling aspect.

Main thing missed for me from the book was quite a bit, well truckloads really of Ye's back story including family and marriage and extended work for Red Coast base. Obviously had to be curtailed for brevity but I would have loved to see some of those scenes, especially her attachment to the village kids who she taught and her spell raising her baby in a rural village. Reading and understanding Chinese history with the author notes explaining certain references was very fascinating too.

A big miss in the TV series was the way Mike Evans just turns up as a mystery guy. The book explains his background so much more poignantly especially when Ye travels to him as his lovingly planted forest is simply extinguished 'because we can'. .

So in summary I really enjoyed the story in both mediums, certainly was expecting more imbalance than I felt, I would give a 9/10 to both the book and TV series.

Cannot wait for the follow ups though will likely swap around to complete book two first before watching Season 2.

Hopefully what I said chimes but would be great to hear your thoughts too. Haven't looked at the sub much as of yet otherwise but will do so.

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