Does Anathem have graphs and charts and shit? I am considering it for my next audiobook (almost done with Ready Player One, so I am in a Neal Stephenson mood now), but I don't want to miss out on any great visual aids like in Cryptonomicon. Although actually Reamde seems like an even more appropriate follow-up to that book. Any graphs/charts in that one?
Well, it's just good to know that when the chips are down and things look grim you'll feed off the girl who loves you to save your own ass!
Xander ,'Chosen'
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."
Polter-Cow - Apr 11, 2012 12:03:36 pm PDT #18434 of 28590
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Tom Scola - Apr 11, 2012 12:07:56 pm PDT #18435 of 28590
They pay me in WOIMS
Anathem has a few illustrations, but more importantly, it has a glossary that will need to be referenced often.
hippocampus - Apr 11, 2012 12:17:31 pm PDT #18436 of 28590
not your mom's socks.
P-C, no. Not that I recall (for REAMDE)
Polter-Cow - Apr 11, 2012 12:18:45 pm PDT #18437 of 28590
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Anathem has a few illustrations, but more importantly, it has a glossary that will need to be referenced often.
Ah, that is a good point.
P-C, no. Not that I recall (for REAMDE)
Ooh, well, maybe that would be better.
Liese S. - Apr 11, 2012 2:18:08 pm PDT #18438 of 28590
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
If it's annotated properly, using a glossary in ebooks is perfectly simple.
I wish there was a secondary market where I could *give* ebooks away. I'm happy to do without it, I just feel there should be a way I can legally transfer my drm!
erikaj - Apr 11, 2012 2:27:21 pm PDT #18439 of 28590
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Until that happens, people won't convert fully. Signed, didn't want to pay $12.99 for Why We Suck
le nubian - Apr 11, 2012 2:59:41 pm PDT #18440 of 28590
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
God. I need to finish Reamde.
Strix - Apr 11, 2012 4:48:40 pm PDT #18441 of 28590
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Bad me -- I read the last Parasol Protectorate weeks ago!
When others are finished, we can geeble!
And yep, P-C, there's a tie-in. Little, but there. I will try to read the rest of the stories tonight, if I have time.
Tom Scola - Apr 12, 2012 6:37:34 am PDT #18442 of 28590
They pay me in WOIMS
Alison Bechdel gets a Guggenheim: [link]
DavidS - Apr 12, 2012 6:45:36 am PDT #18443 of 28590
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Alison Bechdel gets a Guggenheim: [link]
Excellent! Now if only Lynda Barry would get a MacArthur.