LE Snowcrash

[bekah]

I really enjoyed Snow Crash but my enjoyment seemed go kind of 
downhill from there.   The Diamond Age was good enough and so was 
Cryptonomicon but they lacked the magic of Snow Crash.   Perhaps (FOR 
ME!)  Stephenson's style works better in a future scenario than it 
does in the past.   I have Quicksilver here but I've only read a  few 
pages - 25?  There certainly does seem to be a lot of Barth and M&D 
there,  maybe more M&D but how would I know?  I only got a few pages!

On another note,  I'm leaving for North Dakota on Wednesday and will 
be absent for about 10 days.  My daughter and her family are up there 
and I'm getting a new granddaughter in Sept.  (And I won't be able to 
see little until my annual Christmas trip!)   I will have AtD along 
in digital mp3 format to keep myself amused (along with The Crying of 
Lot 49) and Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow and I may get something 
a little lighter as well.

So have fun,  Pynch-heads -

later,
Bekah



At 11:13 AM -0500 7/30/07, David Morris wrote:
>On 7/30/07, Daniel Harper <daniel.e.harper at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  It helps that I read Cryptonomicon before GR. And that I am 
>>generally more of a fan of Stephenson's nerdy but straightforward 
>>style than Pynchon's postmodernism. While GR is a better book 
>>overall that Cryptonomicon, the latter is clearly an easier read.
>
>I read Snowcrash (which I found juvenile but mildly entertaining), and
>started Crypto, which I quit halfway through because the writing's so
>deadly boring.  So, for me, Stephenson is NOT "clearly an easier
>read."