Comments | brutalentropy: One day left until the end of the world.

brutalentropy

One day left until the end of the world.

Dec 20, 2012 21:25

"Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one ( Read more... )

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z3ro666 February 16 2006, 03:50:03 UTC

Shit shit shit, this is a book!

*thinks*

Snow Crash?

No.

Yes?

I don't know.

- Adam

Give the man a cigar! segmentation February 16 2006, 04:03:35 UTC

Snowcrash, bingo, you win. Flawless victory.

Re: Give the man a cigar! brutalentropy February 16 2006, 05:03:30 UTC

FINISH HIM!

brutalentropy February 16 2006, 05:05:31 UTC

Good call... Diamond Age is another good one by Stephenson. I also really like Cryptonomicon, but my copy was never returned... let a friend borrow it after I read it the first time. It is actually because of that book that I am now hesitant to let people borrow my books.

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vorpalbla February 16 2006, 05:24:56 UTC

Fun book, I liked it. Although the guy who recommended it to me said it was as good as Neuromancer, and I can't go that far.

brutalentropy February 16 2006, 05:32:29 UTC

Agreed... William Gibson is amazing. Neuromancer changed my life......

brutalentropy February 16 2006, 05:34:21 UTC

oh, and honestly I thought Diamond Age was much better. Snow Crash is a good book, but Diamond Age just has a more serious tone IMHO.

However, Hiro Protagonist is by far one of the coolest... erm... protagonists ever written. That line is sound evidence of this.

frijole February 16 2006, 05:31:01 UTC

holy shit i just read that part last night.

*plays twilight zone theme*

isn't that a just kick-ass book? i mean, seriously. i want to go to sleep and wake up in the metaverse.

brutalentropy February 16 2006, 05:36:08 UTC

Yeah I saw the quote in an article about scifi movies that should've been. It's always been my favorite quote from that book. Hopefully some day they'll actually make it in to a movie... it would be incredibly bad ass. I'd love to see a big screen potrayal of the metaverse.