Had to pick between the show and the audiobook for The Three Body Problem, chose wrong

So I finished the book trilogy last month and wanted to revisit it before the series drops. I had 2 options, the Netflix show or the audiobook on my commute. I picked the show because I figured visual effects would sell the Trisolaran stuff better. Big mistake. The show cut so much of the science and the human stakes, it felt like a totally different story. Now I'm 8 hours into the audiobook and it's way closer to what I remember, the pacing actually builds. Has anyone else had an adaptation mislead them on a book they already read?

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sullivan.abby27d ago

Did you try the audiobook version of the series from the start, or did you jump around? I had the same problem with a different trilogy, where the show made the main character look like a genius detective but cut out all the boring research that actually solved the case. Listening to the book later, I realized the show wrote him as a lucky guesser, not a scientist. The audiobook let me sit with the clues and the slow build, so the payoff hit way harder. Now I always check a sample of the narration first, because a bad narrator also ruins a good book.