I really enjoyed the Diamond Age but I actually wept when frah Orolo inscribed the analemma. Anathem it's about intellectual cloisters in the procession of better worlds. A great book. Totally hooked on Stephenson. I read this one right before I read Hesse's Glass Bead Game. I found them both in the corner library box and I was staggered that they were both about intellectual cloisters. The Glass Bead Game is a far future history.
The only book I have read so far is Snow Crash. He is my husband's favorite author. I bought myself Quicksilver. My husband has Reamde and Criptonomicon that I can check out as well.
Snow Crash is the #1 cyberpunk novel [take that, Gibson!], especially my boi rat thing [take that, Oy!] however on a reread I'll definitely do the Sumerian skip-a-roo-ski. 🤪
Just started my Neal Stephenson adventure! Read snowcrash first, which I thought was okay but I have the baroque cycle and Cryptonomicon already lined up. Think I'll start with that one before diving into the Baroque books.
I had wanted to read Neal Stephenson for decades. I finally read and finished Snow Crash exactly 1 year ago, and I mostly hated it, especially the writing and story. I really want to find a great cyberpunk novel. Any suggestions that are not Stephenson or Gibson?
@@civoreb I've had my eye on that one since the 1st book came out. I even refrained from watching the TV show. I want to find something that includes 'high tech' (Neuromancer is usually the book people think of). I love low tech, sort of cyberpunk, by authors like Philip K Dick or Alfred Bester.
I can understand why people do not care about global warming, it is as scary as death so we would like to avoid this topic and read about something else :)
Why do you call it "Cryptonomicron" though? I don't mean to be an ass, but I find it weird that you don't know the name of supposedly one of your favourite books of all time (in which the word is spelled out probably a hundred times), *and* you're repeatedly staring right at it while saying it. 🤷♂
Global warming. Ugh. Nothing could get me to read any book pertaining to it. Laughable. Have yet to read any of his because look overly wordy and descriptive, which I despise, but a couple sound intriguing enough to maybe try if I could get a Kindle $1.99 deal sort of thing.
