Neal Stephenson, the great pretender

[Ron Meiners]

At 08:56 PM 5/9/00 -0500, pporteous at worley.co.nz wrote:
 I did finish it though, so it
>didn't make me stop - though the ending was a real let-down, no nabokovian
twist
>here. are his other books any better? (not that I am thinking of reading them
>necessarilly).

The ending was a major letdown IMHO, and a far cry from either "Snowcrash"
or his Victorianesque one, the name of which I can never remember.  Neither
a great work, but both darned entertaining and Snowcrash very delightful in
a brash almost innocent way.  Sort of like the best parts of Cryptonomicon,
without the slop.  And the ending was a thousand times better, real
page-turning stuff.

Snowcrash I regard as a thumping good read.  Worth taking on a plane, for
sure.

rm