Neal Stephenson
A few months ago on a bookstore wander, I reached down to the bottom shelf and picked up a mass market paperback copy of Cryptonomicon. Cheap, thick and filled to the brim with tiny smeary print. Yay!
The moment that sticks is in the beginning part when the current Waterhouse avatar is standing in the middle of some vast math problem with a fanny pack full of freedom (not that it lasted long). & he def. gives good WW II.
Picked up the first book of Quicksilver not long after, and the walks through London were worth it. Also old Daniel on the ship, that was some good ship.
Now it’s after a night at half price books, picking up Snow Crash on a whim. Figure I’ve gone along with him through the recent past, and the Past Past, the future might be an adventure. Then it’s The Deliverator. This is real dumb, dear god, I hate it, but kind of like “air conditioning repair man” dumb, maybe, so I’m on for the rest- we’ll see how it goes. **TIME LAPSE**
I commented to Jeff when finishing up the first chapter “Novels not exactly best vehicle for extended car chase scenes”, rolled my eyes and kept reading in spite. Laughing later when Hiro gets in another and author is like “chase scene goes here” then skips to the next scene. I was mad for a while that I was liking this book where the main characters were named Hiro Protagonist and Y.(ours) T.(ruly), I mean come on, but I can’t stop, I loved every minute of it. I kept thinking - man, this would make a great comic, I wish I could make a comic of this - only to fall on the first words of the afterword “This was meant to be a graphic novel” - but they couldn’t make it work. Well duh, It’s too bad he doesn’t know me, I could have made it work. Alas.
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