Comment Re:Please, no Shaftoe/Waterhouse (Score 2, Insightful) 140
Funny, I couldn't get through Snow Crash after trying several times. But the Baroque Cycle is one of favorite series (an experience much enhanced by the language).
In any case, whether you like Stephenson's earlier books or his later books, he is inarguably one of the more daring speculative fiction writers out there. If authors don't experiment then literature goes nowhere.
I am very much looking forward to this book.