Re: [cs-pdcdca] Re: [ProgSoc] A questions

[Terry Mahony <tjm@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

On Tuesday, Jun 17, 2003, at 23:31 Australia/Sydney, Ros Hodgekiss 
wrote:
>
> Oh momma, another Cryptomonicon groupie!! How many are there these 
> days? A
> general "hands up" if you've read the book. Good ol' Cryptomonicon; an
> organ playing guide for all ages! :)
>
> By the way, is Snow Crash any good?
>
> Now considering the Cryptomonicon underground has pretty much overtaken
> FIT, I'm surprised I'm not getting asked out on more dates. :P


Snow Crash is definately worth reading. If you liked cryptonomicon, 
you'd probably
like Snow Crash and The Diamond Age too. One of the appeals is simply 
how
unique the books are... unless you wanna compare the Metaverse/Street 
to Clancy's
NetForce world, or whatever.

That many people have read Cryptonomicon, though, eh? I've gotta say, 
I'm shocked...
before I started hanging around building 10, I'd have been lucky to 
find somebody who
could *spell* cryptonomicon, let alone tell me who wrote it! ;)

Not getting asked out on more dates? Hmm, well - maybe you need to read 
Snow Crash
and The Diamond Age first ;)


>  Yeah, in some ways I liked it better than Cryptonomicon.  I liked "The
>  Diamond Age" better than both of these, though.  They all suffer the
>  same problem though, which is that like William Gibson, they can't end
>  a book to save their lives.
>
>  B.


Eh, I don't think the ending was so bad... it'd be nice if he'd cleared 
up the
Raven confusion, but it leaves room for a sequel, I guess. Snow Crash,
that is.

The three books are too different from each other for me to pick a 
favourite,
really... and it's been so long since I've read them. I usually make a 
point out
of only ever reading a book once, but I think these three will have to 
go on
the short re-read list...

-terry


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