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narfstar:
Seems like you just got back Jim. Well enjoy once again as I am sure you do.

OtherEric:

--- Quote from: JVJ on September 19, 2011, 07:36:26 PM ---ps. Tomorrow I get my copy of Neal Stephenson's latest, Reamde. I find my pleasures where I can.

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Drifting way off topic, but what did you think of Reamde, Jim?  I had been working through mostly on the bus or lunch breaks until tonight, when I found myself about the half-way mark 6 hours ago and realized I could just about get through the last 500 pages before I absolutely had to crash to get 6 hours of sleep before work.  (I read FAST, about 100 pages an hour.)  And, more importantly, I had reached the point where I WAS going to finish it before I went to sleep.  This was easily my favorite of his books since Cryptonomicon.

Eric

JVJ (RIP):
Finished a couple of days ago, Eric,
I agree. As I told a friend, "A worthy successor to SNOW CRASH and CRYPTONOMICON. As much as I enjoyed "The Baroque Cycle" which I began to reread as soon as I finished the third volume, this is better: more compact, richer characters and characterizations and more FUN.

Let me know what you think when you get to the end. And tell me what you thought of ANATHEM, if you read it.

Peace from Paris,
Jim (|:{>

OtherEric:
Oh, I got to the end shortly before I posted last night; Jim.  The post was what I did in the very brief window between "I finally turned the last page" and "OK, I can sleep now".  Reamde was the first book in several years when I had a "I'm going to be short of sleep on a work night because I can't sleep until I'm done" reaction; I read around 500 pages in a marathon session.  I loved it; it never turned from a thriller into a comedy but it was frequently laugh-out-loud funny.  Stephenson is a master of injecting humor without sacrificing drama.  He does still have his issue of not wanting to write falling action, though.

Anathem, I enjoyed immensely but I really need to re-read.  It was excellent work on the micro level, his usual funny and well developed.  And it was great on the macro level, with tons of big ideas coming at you at great speed.  I'm just now sure how well I think those meshed.  And it's probably telling that my reaction after finishing it was "I need to re-read this very soon" now that I had some clue as to what was going on, but I still haven't.

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