Neal Stephenson - Author Tracker News from Harper Collins

Scott Badger lupine at ncia.net
Fri Jun 27 07:00:13 CDT 2003


Bandwraith:
> 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.

Recently re-read Cryptonomicon....much better the first time.

Scott




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