Comment Yup, the review nails it. (Score 1) 356
Just like the reviewer, I struggled getting through Cryptonomicon, but made it satisfied at just having made it. I totally lost it in the Baroque Cycle, thankfully early on it would seem. Now another singular novel, time to give it another shot, and once again comes the drudgery...
Oh well. It seems to me that in writing In The Beginning was the Command Line Stephenson has suckered us all in to hoping that some lighter intellectual entertainment is to be had elsewhere in his writing... eventually. With Snow Crash he sealed the deal. Now we're in for the long haul, despite everthing else. I feel a little ripped off. I must stop buying the damn books, get a library card, or something.
Oh well. It seems to me that in writing In The Beginning was the Command Line Stephenson has suckered us all in to hoping that some lighter intellectual entertainment is to be had elsewhere in his writing... eventually. With Snow Crash he sealed the deal. Now we're in for the long haul, despite everthing else. I feel a little ripped off. I must stop buying the damn books, get a library card, or something.
- Make a book about the command line to get lots of Nerds on board.
- Write and sell as much crap as you like.
- Profit.
It may not be his intention but it's how I feel.