One of my fave 90s books was Snow Crash. So I have fond feelings for Neal Stephenson. The other day at Goodwill I saw the first two books of his Baroque Cycle. I nearly bought them, but their mammoth size and reputation for being confusing stopped me. Has anyone read them? To what can they be compared, if anything? I am always leery of commmitting to nearly 2500 pages of reading.
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
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I am a huge fan of Cryptonomicon, Stephenson's best book in my opinion. My friend Matt is an even bigger fan and greedily dug into the first book of the Baroque Cycle and couldn't finish it - he even offered to give it to me since he didn't want it taunting him anymore. So, haven't plunged into that, but will go read Snow Crash since both you and Matt said it was worthwhile.
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