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gambrinus
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Location: Boulder, CO
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| European Son wrote: |
Um... I'm just gonna keep it short and clean:
Haruki Murakami.
That is all.
Oh, yeah; Norwegian Wood. |
I can't remember what color spoilers should be on grey, so I'm just gonna say that I love the ending of that book. All of it. |
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gambrinus
Joined: 19 Dec 2006
Location: Boulder, CO
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| Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 1:05 am |
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| Shiren the Launderer wrote: |
| crispyambulance wrote: |
| Why is Cryptonomicon dumb? This thread has some glowing posts about Snow Crash and then a few about how the ending is terrible, and I remembered that Tim said he liked Cryptonomicon somewhere so I figured it was perhaps a better place to start with Stephenson. |
Neil Stephenson is a smart guy and he devotes a lot of pages to showing the reader just how rad he is. This guy has it all figured out right down to how to best eat Captain Crunch. |
I don't really read Stephenson as egotistical so much as being like, "Hey guys, I think this stuff is neat. Don't you think it's neat?" Your enjoyment of his books will probably vary a lot depending on how neat you find it.
I really just thought Cryptonomicon was, in essence, about nerds in their different forms. The Captain Crunch bit was just a demonstration about the obsession that the personality type can bring. I found it particularly interesting seeing a picture of what nerds did before computers were around. |
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