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In a message dated 6/26/03 8:51:42 PM, flavordav at yahoo.com writes:

<< But from
The Diamond Age on ... and I'm looking forward to
Quicksilver as well ... >>

He does tend to take plot a little too seriously. But there is
one part in Cryptonomicon that I found apt- when the main
character logs on to an anonymous list to get some feed-
back/advice  concerning the cyber woes which have beset
him and his neo-econ comrades, he engages an entity who
is a little too smart and list-available. He hopes he is not
encountering his worst nightmare- a sixteen year-old with
way too much time on his/her hands, whose identity has
become contingent on list politics. I've tried to find the
passage, but have not been successful. 

Stephenson is entertaining, but not in a way that makes me 
want to re-read his work, at least not so far. In comparison,
Nabokov seems to have come up with a structure which must 
be re-read as it is being read. And yet, we don't mind this- 
very artistic and entertaining. Maybe at the time of its pub-
lication it was also socially relevant.

respectfully