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- jellygraph, on 11/27/2008, -0/+10Snow Crash was possibly one of the best books I ever read and scarily prescient (ooh, same description came up about snow crash in the article. i'm prescient about the use of the word prescient... ok, i'm weird)
- withoutamartyr, on 11/27/2008, -0/+10Dugg for Neal Stephenson.
- edebolt, on 11/27/2008, -0/+8Neal is a genius of research and weaving it into fiction. "Snow Crash" and the "Diamond Age" are still playing out accurately. He is an author researcher like Tom Clancy but for techno nerds like me.
- doiveo, on 11/26/2008, -1/+9"I saw the strip, but not the discussions. Note that the dependent variable in the graph is "probability that the book will be good" and not "quality of book," which means that I still have some statistical chance of writing a good book even if it's full of neologisms."
in reference to xkcd ... http://xkcd.com/483/
give a SciFi geek a probability and he'll calculate an assurance. - ketemphor, on 11/27/2008, -0/+7I finished it about 3 weeks ago and I didn't find any of it that slow. There were interesting ideas to chew on pretty much all the way through. And that's why I love Stephenson's work, truth be told. It's more about the ideas than the story anyway.
One thing I have noticed, I can't read a lot of his work when I'm tired. It's not bubble-gum fiction to read while falling asleep. I got totally bogged down in Quicksilver for a while until I figured that out.
Oh, and he does bring this one to a hell of a lot better ending than Snow Crash or Diamond Age, both of which felt like they ended in the middle of a - kingmanic, on 11/27/2008, -0/+5The man does his research unlike other popular authors like dan brown. Cryptonomicon had a few errors but essentially got cryptography. A similar attempt 'the digital fortress' was a very far off the mark on what cryptography is.
- jellygraph, on 11/27/2008, -0/+4can you please stop spamming digg with your jugaargame site?
- kingmanic, on 11/27/2008, -0/+2Just get the latin right and nothing bad will happen. Well aside from the Math-Yog-Sothoth eating your soul.
- khaosx2030, on 11/27/2008, -1/+3Whenever I look at the copy of Cryptonomicon I own, I get too scared to read it. :(
- CrushThemTorg, on 11/27/2008, -0/+2Prescience combo bonus!
- Hortinstein, on 11/27/2008, -0/+2im about 150 pages into Cryptonomicon and am loving every page of it. I flew through Snow Crash and The Diamond Age, and am going to have to look into reading his other books.
- Dumbledorito, on 11/27/2008, -1/+2I just started "Anathem" this week. It's got a VERY slow beginning that's hard to get past.
- flickrer, on 11/27/2008, -0/+1Sould-eating Math-Yog-Sothoth? I am intrigued.
I really want to read Cryptonomicon now! - eleraama, on 11/28/2008, -0/+1The plot begins near page 300, and it gets very good from there, but yeah, the beginning's pretty slow.
- xobarbarian, on 11/28/2008, -0/+1Loved Cryptonomicon! Had a really hard time with the Baroque cycle, listened to it on audio and really enjoyed it, listening to Anathem now...
Snow Crash blew my mind with the brain operating system & sumeric stuff. I used to think I was smart until I started reading his stuff, now not so much! - jellygraph, on 11/28/2008, -0/+1...a what?
(loved the bit about robo-dog) - csarak, on 11/27/2008, -1/+2Dugg for the entertaining xkcd discussion in the comments, and of course for Mr. Stephenson. I like xkcd, sometimes.
- fiji5555, on 11/27/2008, -1/+1Cryptonomicon was the same way.........I liked some of it but the flip flopping back and forth in each chapter from the present to the past put me off it because I found the past chapters way too slow to read. I mean he put way too much detail into it for my taste so I never finished it.
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