[geeks] Re: [SunHELP] SSA and fiber card being a royal PITA

[Zach Malone]

I dunno (I missed the start of this therad), but I never really liked Neal
Stephensons cyberpunk stuff.  He came about 5 years too late, and his work
comes across as being slightly repetitive of Gibson, Sterling, and the other
80's sci-fi authors.  Luckily he mixes in the whole Sumarian/mythology
factor, which really saves the book.  Im more partial to his later stuff,
Cryptomonicon is really quite good, and his In the Beginning was the Command
Line is a nice read.  The Diamond Age was ok, but a lot of people I talked
to couldnt get into it.  Personally, I think that he has good ideas, but his
writting is not of Gibsons caliber.
    Zach
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Hechinger" <wonko at arkham.ws>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 11:43 AM
Subject: [geeks] Re: [SunHELP] SSA and fiber card being a royal PITA


> Tim Gallagher wrote:
> >        snow crash by neal stephenson
>
> Lara Matthews wrote:
> >
> > Hiro Protagonist--hacker, samurai swordsman and pizza-delivery driver
> > from Snow crash by Neal Stephenson  - very good book.  The first chapter
> > has got to be one of the best first chapters ever.
>
> *ding ding ding* we have two winners.  you get, uhm, ahhhhh, i got some
spare
> computer bits paying around. :)
>
> that first chapter did me in.  though, "ok, everyone says how good this
book is
> and how i should read it, i don't have a lot of time right now, but i'll
read
> the first chapter just to get started."  half a book later i put it down.
i
> was so taken by that first chapter that what choice did i have but to read
as
> much as i could before i realized how tired i was, how late it was, and
how i
> didn't do any of the things i had wanted to that day. :)
>
> cheers,
>
> -brian
>
> ps: moved to geeks.
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