I need a bookshelf something wicked.

[diziara]

I was talking with my mom a bunch last night, and about 85% of the conversation was book related. She'd expressed disappointment in her reading selections of late, and I started grilling her about if she'd read any of Neal Stephenson's books. She hadn't, which is really weird because the first book of his I read was Snow Crash, which came via one

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[mageboltrat]

I keep telling people they should read those books, Strangely my favorite is Zodiac, mainly because I feel I have more in common with the hero than I do with a young adolescent girl or a motorbike riding, kitana wielding oriental guy.

[diziara]

Zodiac is really my least favorite of Stephenson's books, probably because it's so normal compared to the rest of his stuff. Though least favorite really just means I don't remember so much about it because the story didn't hold my interest as much as the others. Even The Big U is absolutely insane, and you'd think a book about a college shouldn't be that weird, should it?

I've made role play characters vaguely based on YT and Hiro. The YT one is a skateboard courier, but she's a rich kid who only does it as cover and socialization. She fights crime in her spare time. The one inspired by Hiro is actually a female take on the samurai hacker.

Also, I think you were one of the people I'd talked to about setting a Vampire game into the setting of Diamond Age, weren't you? I really felt that the setting was well suited to the Vampire/World of Darkness vibe. I should still try that at some point.