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re: Seveneves - Neal Stephenson
Posted on 11/13/23 at 11:30 am to Jay Are
Posted on 11/13/23 at 11:30 am to Jay Are
I really liked Reamde. Didn't like Anathem. I love the System of the World books, though, and I think they might be his best in many ways.
Weird that you don't like Snow Crash or Cryptonomicon. Snow Crash, at least, is almost universally beloved as a cyberpunk classic.
Weird that you don't like Snow Crash or Cryptonomicon. Snow Crash, at least, is almost universally beloved as a cyberpunk classic.
Posted on 11/19/23 at 10:13 pm to hogfly
I went into them wanting and expecting to love them. I found the characters aggressively insufferable. That could work if the characters are also interesting and differentiated. I think those really novels all have a mono voice of sorts. All the characters speak and think the same.
And that voice is constantly being for attention and trying to be edgy and cool.
That's nowhere to be found in Seveneves. It's also gone from Tthe Rise and Fall of DODO, which manages to the lighthearted and humorous content much more successfully (imo) than the early stuff.
And that voice is constantly being for attention and trying to be edgy and cool.
That's nowhere to be found in Seveneves. It's also gone from Tthe Rise and Fall of DODO, which manages to the lighthearted and humorous content much more successfully (imo) than the early stuff.
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