Baroque cycle

[Ghetta Life]

I've just started "Snow Crash."  So far, so good.  It is cyberpunk ala 
Gibson.  The writing doesn't exactly shine, but it's not bad.  I'd heard so 
many good things about Stephensen that I figured his SciFi must be pretty 
good, and Snow Crash has good reviews.  I like the specifics of the 
political/economic future he describes, and I think these specifics are what 
distinguish him from Gibson in this genre.  Gibson is more visually poetic, 
but less than specific in the details.   Both are good.

I'm glad to hear Stephenson's Baroque Cycle shows an improvement in his 
writing.  I do plan to read them sometime soon.

Ghetta

>From: Drkeyedayla at aol.com
>
>
>Congrats!!  ;-)  I am most of the way through my  second "round" of the
>Baroque Cycle ( finally able to read them immediatly  following each other 
>), so I
>suppose it is redundant to allow that I enjoyed  them immensely. There 
>really
>is no comparison to Pynchon, but  Stephenson has definately become much 
>more
>"pynchonesque" in flavor, a tendency  that is visible even in his earlier
>novels. He certainly has come lightyears  since his science 
>ficton/cyberpunk
>beginnings! It will be interesting to follow  as his writing style 
>continues to
>mature- his wry sense of humor, tendency to  follow strange tangents, 
>whimsical
>character descriptions (along with that  strange name thing...), and 
>ability to
>hold together synchronistic,  multilayered plots to a surprising depth all 
>put
>me in mind of T.P.'s writing,  and although his command of language is
>marvelous, it is not comparable to  Pynchon at his frenzied best (not 
>surprising, he
>is in a class by  himself....). All together an epic effort by an author
>whose best, I'm sure, is  yet to come! Any one who has enjoyed the Baroque 
>Cycle
>should also pick up his  previous novel, "Cryptonomicon", as many of the
>characters  have their  antecedents in Quicksilver, etc. ; also a few other 
>strange
>connections.....

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