BEBE: finished! (possible spoilers - but not really)

[Bekah]

Also there's an interior game play scenario in Ready, Player One by  Ernest Cline.  That's a nostalgia to the 1980s,  a bit of rather brainless romp, maybe even Young Adult fiction - 15 year old variety.  ??  But I kind of like the cyber- oriented novels out now.  

Bekah


On Sep 19, 2013, at 7:19 AM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm buzzing through it pretty quickly too.
> 
> I see the Reamde comparison with the game in that novel analogous to
> DeepArcher, but I see more similarity with "The Walled City" of
> Gibson's "Idoru".
> 
> I sometimes wonder how well those guys know each other.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 11:04 PM, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> Well,  well worth the ride -  totally enjoyed it -
>> 
>> Fwiw,  I read on my Kindle / iPad version and it was so cool to be able to highlight the word and get the definition right there.  It was also totally wonderful to be able to highlight the word(s) and click Google or Wiki for a reality check re references - and it is heavy with the 2001 allusions and references and with good purpose because they lend a serious chord of reality to the tale.
>> 
>> Imo,  this is a somewhat different voice for Pynchon,   but it's a New York voice with a William Gibson feel due to the subject matter - also some similarities to Neal Stephenson's Reamde.  After 50 pages I was well into it and by 100 pages I knew I was a happy camper.
>> 
>> The whole thing took me about 10-12 hours to read over a period of 2 full days.
>> 
>> Bekah
>>