Castle Anthrax
 

starexplorer wrote:

I am 40 pages into Hopeland. I know it’s good. I just don’t know if it’s what I want right now.

I fully understand that.  It happens often enough to me too - I think its why my TBR pile is the size it is.

Hopeland is a book I've wanted to discuss for quite a while now.  It's rare for a book to grab me around the throat so comprehensively as I start it. But it's unprecedented for one to inspire me to build a two hour musical accompaniment playlist on Spotify as I'm reading it, which is what this one did.  In fact, I think I'll listen to it again now as today's musical soundtrack.
 

Thanks for that Kokipy.
I'll be taking your advice and sticking to the show adaptation for now.  I've already spotted a few clues in the visuals that hint at where it might be going in parts.
 

I finished Season 1 of the 3 Body Problem tv adaptation last night, and find myself in general agreement with Star's assessment as given up-thread.  I thought it was a decent story so far, reasonably well-acted by most of the cast, and quite faithful in part to segments of the first book of the trilogy, which remains the only one I have read.  It is of course very divergent from other parts of that book and I have no idea of what parts of books 2 and 3 have been incorporated.

I am happy to wait for more of the tv adaptation, but I have a question for Kokipy who has read the whole trilogy: do I need to read the subsequent books while I wait, or does the first one alone give the gist of the overall storyline?
 

Diesel and Dust