I love Cryptonomicon -- I'm in the middle of rereading it right now -- but I haven't been able to get through Quicksilver.
It's called a blaster, Will, a word that tends to discourage experimentation. Now, if it were called the Orgasmater, I'd be the first to try your basic button press approach.
Xander ,'Get It Done'
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."
Hil R. - Jun 10, 2006 7:57:45 am PDT #644 of 28095
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Strix - Jun 10, 2006 7:59:30 am PDT #645 of 28095
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
(sorry, Raq. HAD to!)
Jesse - Jun 10, 2006 8:02:05 am PDT #646 of 28095
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Hey, did you know LMB is coming out with a new book in a new series this fall? [link] (Thank to erinaceous for the heads up.)
Betsy HP - Jun 10, 2006 8:04:19 am PDT #647 of 28095
If I only had a brain...
I'm afraid I've been incredibly eeeeh about all her non-SF books. Here's hoping this isn't another fantasy.
Strix - Jun 10, 2006 8:04:24 am PDT #648 of 28095
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
And Jacqueline Carey's newest book (about Imriel) hits bookstores 6/12!
Polter-Cow - Jun 10, 2006 8:09:11 am PDT #649 of 28095
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I can understand the accusations of plagarism ( Rose ) also, as Pendulum and Eco's other writings (and I've read a LOT of his stuff) seem to all come from the same author, but Rose seems like a very different author.
But...wouldn't that be due to the narrator? I didn't know there were accusations of plagiarism.
Strix - Jun 10, 2006 8:09:54 am PDT #650 of 28095
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I've never heard that either! Interesting.
Polter-Cow - Jun 10, 2006 8:12:31 am PDT #651 of 28095
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I mean, they don't really have a leg to stand on anyway! Eco claims he just stumbled across Adso's manuscript and decided to translate it into Italian.
Mr. Broom - Jun 10, 2006 8:17:14 am PDT #652 of 28095
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
I've been needing to read Cryptonomicon again for some time now; I read it in three weeks four years ago and really need to do it again. I've read the Baroque Cycle twice through, and while I understand why other people could find it hard to get through (you just have to make it until the second half of Quicksilver and then it starts to ramp up, and The Confusion is a lot more intense and fun after--it's a lot like the Lord of the Rings in that sense), I couldn't put them down.
Emily - Jun 10, 2006 8:20:02 am PDT #653 of 28095
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
I finished Quicksilver, but the next one's been sitting on my bookshelf for about a year now. I just don't have the time or inclination. Loved Cryptonomicon, with one small bit of eye-rolling at the bit about postmodern academia. Whatever, dude.