We've waited for years until they decided to finally come here, but we can't subscribe directly because of that exclusivity, which really pisses me off. It's not even shown on their website; they let people register, and at the last step, they say 'not available in your country'. It's too small for them, I think.
That's disappointing.
Yes, I just saw that. I plan on watching it too. I didn't know it was from a book.
I didn't know either until recently. It's Chinese. There was also movie that was filmed but never released. Amazon unsuccessfully tried to acquire the rights to it.
I just looked at it and the reviews are pretty bimodal between 5 and 1 ... definitely more at work than the actual show! I'll take a look at the book ... interestingly the Hugo awards themselves came under significant fire this year for eliminating writers from contention under concerns of upsetting the CCP.
I don't think most people consider them bad writers.
I'm not surprised it wasn't received well. New entries in a series done by someone else rarely are in any form of media, especially books.
I'm not too surprised either. One exception I've seen recently is Ann Christy's Silo series, which has about the same Goodread score as Hugh Howey's Wool series (and from what I've read so far, it's well deserved). If you read his books and feel like reading more, it's definitely worth checking.