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Book finished
Jul. 8th, 2011 12:48 pmSnow Crash by Neal Stephenson
That was a fun ride. Will wonders never cease, a cyberpunk novel that I not only didn't drop into the trash can before page 50, but I actually enjoyed. Probably because it was about people rather than shock value.
Of course, having read this and most of The Diamond Age (I really should finish that some day), according to a person whose judgement I trust pretty well, I've pretty much exhausted everything of value in Stephenson's bibliography. He says he read Cryptonomicon expecting to really like it, and absolutely hated it. I've still got it on my list as it's in everyone's top 100 list but I think maybe I'll put it off for a while, if for no other reason than I can only take so much cyberpunk per year even if it's stuff I like.
On the other hand, the same guy convinced me to give Charles Stross another try. I read Saturn's Children in early 2009 and hated it so much that I gave up completely on his books. I only even finished it because it had won some awards, but apparently people either vote for anything with sex in it, or they vote for whatever their favorite author wrote that year regardless of whether that particular book is any good or not. But apparently he's written other stuff that's good so I may start pushing some of his stuff onto the list.
That was a fun ride. Will wonders never cease, a cyberpunk novel that I not only didn't drop into the trash can before page 50, but I actually enjoyed. Probably because it was about people rather than shock value.
Of course, having read this and most of The Diamond Age (I really should finish that some day), according to a person whose judgement I trust pretty well, I've pretty much exhausted everything of value in Stephenson's bibliography. He says he read Cryptonomicon expecting to really like it, and absolutely hated it. I've still got it on my list as it's in everyone's top 100 list but I think maybe I'll put it off for a while, if for no other reason than I can only take so much cyberpunk per year even if it's stuff I like.
On the other hand, the same guy convinced me to give Charles Stross another try. I read Saturn's Children in early 2009 and hated it so much that I gave up completely on his books. I only even finished it because it had won some awards, but apparently people either vote for anything with sex in it, or they vote for whatever their favorite author wrote that year regardless of whether that particular book is any good or not. But apparently he's written other stuff that's good so I may start pushing some of his stuff onto the list.
