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Originally Posted by SerOuanling
is the show better or the books?
The books are excellent. In some ways, a strange and convoluted story, but it works. First 50-100 pages, I was like "How is this SciFi?" Then it kicks in. One part that hooked me was a look at a modern Chinese author's description of aspects of life in modern China as the underpinning to the story.
The Netflix show does a great job of distilling the main plot points of the first book, but it changes the location to the UK and changes the ethnicity/gender of some of the characters (this does not get in the way of the plot lines, though).
The Chinese series on Prime is structurally weird to me as a westerner, and it seems to move very slowly getting to the main plot points, but I'm only 10 episodes in and it is nowhere near the end of the first book.