damon shackleton on 18 Mar 2018 13:42:56 -0700 |
[Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]
Re: [PLUG] Ready Player One: A Novel (and about to be a movie) |
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.
--
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.
> ____________________________________________________________ _______________
> Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org
> Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce
> General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
____________________________________________________________ _______________
Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org
Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce
General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug