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entombed in the shrine of zeroes and ones ([personal profile] rone) wrote2005-07-19 11:32 am
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he did it to me again!

Neal Stephenson tricked me again... he wound me up with a good book and then STOPPED. WRITING.  Cryptonomicon is a good, if highly nerdy, romp, until he decides, "OK, i'm tired of writing about protagonist A, so i'll just kill him off.  Hmm, and protagonist B was going to get married, but i have these loose ends, so i'll have him tie them up.  That frees me up to use protagonist C to... oh, fuck it.  Explosions.  Sex.  More explosions.  Exeunt."  That bit about the psychopath with the bow and arrows was so random and gratuitous, i still don't get the point.  FUCK YOU NEAL STEPHENSON AND YOUR BROKE CYCLE SEE IF I READ IT `CAUSE I WON'T.  JERK.

Maybe that's the thing... LucasArts, in a hurry to put out KOTOR 2, hired Neal Stephenson to write its ending.

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[identity profile] zonereyrie.livejournal.com 2005-07-19 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
The Big U was silly college fanfiction (Big U == Boston University), and I very much enjoyed it. Of course, that is, in part, because I *wrote* silly college fanfiction.

I read and enjoyed Cryptonomicon, Zodiac, Snow Crash, The Diamond Age - and I have the first book of the cycle waiting.
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