I loved The Diamond Age. but i have tons of Stephenson I haven't read -- like Anatham
Don't belong. Dangerous, like you. Can't be controlled. Can't be trusted. Everyone could just go on without me and not have to worry. People could be what they wanted to be. Could be with the people they wanted. Live simple. No secrets.
River ,'Objects In Space'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
beth b - May 14, 2010 9:16:58 am PDT #11453 of 28730
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Volans - May 14, 2010 9:25:26 am PDT #11454 of 28730
move out and draw fire
And there's an iPad in The Diamond Age.
Ginger - May 14, 2010 9:29:13 am PDT #11455 of 28730
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I think I need to re-read Moby Dick. Maybe skipping the infodump parts.
I found I appreciated all the whales and whaling stuff much more the second and subsequent readings of Moby Dick. It's like swimming in a grand river of words.
I haven't tackled Anathem yet. There are times in my life when I don't feel up to tackling a doorstop book. I loved Snow Crash, but I should reread it after years online. It is the book in which Stephenson posits that the U.S. does four things better than the rest of the world: movies, music, software and high-speed pizza delivery.
Liese S. - May 14, 2010 6:58:31 pm PDT #11456 of 28730
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Is now a good time for me to pipe up with how much I hated Cryptonomicon? Hated. I threw it across the room, damaging its shiny, shiny cover. This is where you all gasp because it is shocking to damage a book. And
on purpose!
Awful! But I hated it that much. Finished it though, because I am a completist, if evidently something of a masochist.
Could not bear the race issues.
Kat - May 14, 2010 8:23:02 pm PDT #11457 of 28730
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Everytime I see Anathem I have to remind myself that there is an extra A and it's not Anthem. No one should confuse Neal Stephenson and Ayn Rand.
Atropa - May 14, 2010 10:01:42 pm PDT #11458 of 28730
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I love The Diamond Age, but then, everything about the Neo-Vickies would appeal to me.
Volans - May 15, 2010 1:28:26 pm PDT #11459 of 28730
move out and draw fire
Oh, I've thrown plenty of books across rooms.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 15, 2010 1:45:22 pm PDT #11460 of 28730
You have to remember that being a 5-time Olympic medalist means Hilary Knight has been playing hockey at an elite level at least 16 years. It's impossible for her to be a teenage girl less than 16 years old, thus the President's complete lack of interest.
Only its status as a library book protected The Atrocity Archives from similar treatment by me recently. My regret over all the years I remained unaware Charles Stross was writing Chthulhu Mythos stories? Vanished by 20 pages in.
Barb - May 15, 2010 1:50:34 pm PDT #11461 of 28730
“Not dead yet!”
I've thrown a fair amount of books. Usually ones I receive for first round of RITA judging.
Kathy A - May 15, 2010 2:22:50 pm PDT #11462 of 28730
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I just bought The Atrocity Archives on the recommendation of a bookstore coworker. Is it that bad, Matt?