Cool thanks, I'll check it out.
I recently got sidetracked by Vernor Vinge (the guy who wrote the original paper on the Singularity), and I have read 'A Fire Upon the Deep', and am now reading 'A Deepness in the Sky'.
Really good sci-fi, I strongly recommend them. His writing is somewhere inbetween the style of the classics like Asimov and Clarke, and the moderns like Reynolds, Banks and Simmons, but his creativeness is greater than most of the other modern writers I've read, and he manages to bring together his stories in a more coherent way than, say Reynolds, for example.
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If you can get past the first couple of pages, it's pretty awesome. Stephenson has that weird thing some writers have where he really stumbles with his style at the beginning of his booksxer0s wrote:I just ordered Snow Crash. Hope its good. I haven't read this type of fiction before...
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I read half of SnowCrash and put it down. I thought it sucked.
I got the impression that it wasn't marketed to my demographic -- if I had read it as a 13 year old who was just breaking on to the scene of being a crazy haxxor I think I would have enjoyed it more.
TBH, thinking back on it now, there were some things in it that stood out as original for its time, and tempts me to go back and finish it.... But then I remember how I nearly laughed at all the quote-unquote cybar-slang and not-quite-techno-babble.
I got the impression that it wasn't marketed to my demographic -- if I had read it as a 13 year old who was just breaking on to the scene of being a crazy haxxor I think I would have enjoyed it more.
TBH, thinking back on it now, there were some things in it that stood out as original for its time, and tempts me to go back and finish it.... But then I remember how I nearly laughed at all the quote-unquote cybar-slang and not-quite-techno-babble.
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Reading World War Z for the second time this year after having read the Ender saga. I agree with the sentiments voiced here regarding Card: Ender's Game is a true classic, but the others flounder somewhat and feel pretty generic.
Just read book 1 & 2 of The Walking Dead too. Loved book 1, and book 2 was great, but I wish they hadn't changed the artist
Just read book 1 & 2 of The Walking Dead too. Loved book 1, and book 2 was great, but I wish they hadn't changed the artist
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That's it, I'm revoking your nerd card. :icon33:R00k wrote:I read half of SnowCrash and put it down. I thought it sucked.
I got the impression that it wasn't marketed to my demographic -- if I had read it as a 13 year old who was just breaking on to the scene of being a crazy haxxor I think I would have enjoyed it more.
TBH, thinking back on it now, there were some things in it that stood out as original for its time, and tempts me to go back and finish it.... But then I remember how I nearly laughed at all the quote-unquote cybar-slang and not-quite-techno-babble.
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I've heard a lot of good things about Stephenson. After SnowCrash, I decided to pick up Quicksilver because it sounded like it was more up my alley, and I wanted to give the guy a shot.
I've read maybe 100 pages of that one so far, but it's wearing me down. It seems like nothing is really happening. His style is interesting, but when you're talking about cloaked encounters between alchemists (the backstory to which I still don't understand), it's hard to keep my attention.
I'm not sure if I'm missing something key, or if I'm just too dense to follow the story. =\
Maybe I should have picked up Cryptonomicon instead of Quicksilver.
I've read maybe 100 pages of that one so far, but it's wearing me down. It seems like nothing is really happening. His style is interesting, but when you're talking about cloaked encounters between alchemists (the backstory to which I still don't understand), it's hard to keep my attention.
I'm not sure if I'm missing something key, or if I'm just too dense to follow the story. =\
Maybe I should have picked up Cryptonomicon instead of Quicksilver.
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About ninety percent of the Baroque Cycle is boring twaddle, Cryptonomicon is genius from cover to cover, Snow Crash is hilarious, and the Diamond Age was very thought-provoking and great at wrong-footing the reader over what sort of book it actually is.R00k wrote:I've heard a lot of good things about Stephenson. After SnowCrash, I decided to pick up Quicksilver because it sounded like it was more up my alley, and I wanted to give the guy a shot.
I've read maybe 100 pages of that one so far, but it's wearing me down. It seems like nothing is really happening. His style is interesting, but when you're talking about cloaked encounters between alchemists (the backstory to which I still don't understand), it's hard to keep my attention.
I'm not sure if I'm missing something key, or if I'm just too dense to follow the story. =\
Maybe I should have picked up Cryptonomicon instead of Quicksilver.
Just finished RANT.7zark7 wrote:RANT by ChuckPalahniuk.
I really liked the oral biography format he uses.... ITs still your standard Palahnuik.... but he takes his formula to a new level, this time baseing the novel in a distopian future. And alot of interesting stuff about the concepts on time travel. and I love the idea of PARTY CRASHING. Its like a fight club with cars.
I'm not gonna say its my favorite, cuz its not. ( Diary is) But I liked it alot better than choke.
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