Re: [PLUG] Ready Player One: A Novel (and about to be a movie)

[Doug Stewart <zamoose@gmail.com>]

I'll fight for the endings of Anathem and Big U -- I enjoyed the denouements of both. Anathem is far and away my favorite Stephenson, but I get the sense I'm very much in the minority. 

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Doug Stewart

> On Mar 18, 2018, at 2:28 PM, brent timothy saner <brent.saner@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 03/18/2018 02:27 PM, JP Vossen wrote:
>> I re-read it the other day and you know what?  *I* still liked it!
>> "Great Literature" (whatever THAT is) it is not, but I still think it's
>> a very fun read and will probably make a very fun movie.  The movie
>> trailer has a big car race that is not in the book, but...such is the
>> difference between the media formats.
>> 
>> OTOH, I also tried to re-read the original _Blade Runner: DADoES_, which
>> I have read several times but not for decades, and I gave up a few
>> chapters in which is only about the 3rd time in my life I've stopped
>> reading a book once I started.  I'd forgotten how dreary and tedious it
>> was.
>> 
>> So I'm re-reading _Neuromancer_ instead, and liking it as much as ever.
>> Heck, I may re-read all my Gibson, then move on to Neil Stephenson,
>> speaking of super-dense (in a good way) writing.
>> 
> 
> Stephenson can't write an ending to save his life, but by golly is the
> journey there amazing.
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