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

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I'd agree about the "good" part. I think there may have been a decent 250-page short novel buried in there somewhere, but you could only barely hear its muffled screams.

Also: worst. sex. scene. EVER. Bulwer-Lytton worthy.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

It wasn't that bad... um... yeah, it was that bad. B-L is a good comparison. Ugh. She deserved better, dammit.