he did it to me again!

[rone]

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.

Comments

[merde.livejournal.com]

come on, if you don't know the man can't end a book by now, you haven't been paying attention.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I know, i know. I feel like i'm co-dependent or something. I guess i was hoping that he'd be more polished or something in his recent books, but instead he's gone all JK Rowling and shoved his editor in a garbage can.

[erikred.livejournal.com]

The closest he's come to an ending was in Zodiac. You might enjoy that one.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's a good one, and it definitely counts as an ending.