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Re: WAY OFF TOPIC: recommendations for great science fiction written in the last 10 years?
Ahh.. I HAD forgotton about Cryptonomicon or whatever he called it, ... I actually couldnt get 25 pages in. Im not in any way a Stevenson fan (more a PKDick fan) but Diamond age (and in a fun simplistic way Snow Crash) are both brilliant...
Warrens statement that he can't write a character, is um.... er...true, but well.. um.. er... sorry Warren... boring...
Its what people come up with when they just dont like a book, but can't say why.
To be honest, after years of wallowing in arty farty clever clogs books (Burroughs Joyce Poe ) I just cant be bothered with those long and tiresome descriptions of "real" characters.. (unless its Jane Austin) yawn.. does EVERY book have to spend 4 chapters building motives and describing backgrounds, and warming up... no.. what I want is
A) a great story, as in a beginning a middle and and a proper, old fashioned, clever, resolving, end. And...
B) a good idea. So many novels I read are long sprawling desciptions of seemier gritty real ... Im sick of it... Give me something unreal, new, original, creative and surprising. And get to the story on page one.
cheers
Mark
OH.. and a NON- SF recommendation: My fave book infact. A conspiracy of dunces.
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Warren Sirota
<wsirota@wsdesigns.com> wrote:
im(extremely minority)o, Stephenson can't write characters to save his life and i find his books deadly boring (ok, let me be specific and indulge my passion for exaggeration a little less: 250 slow pages into Cryptonomicon or whatever he called it, i realized that every single person in the book was the identical blend of system analyst and amateur sleuth/reflexive information hider that i have to work with in corporate life every day, just with different circumstances. i couldn't find a spec of character in any of them, and i couldn't go on reading).
and, sorry to those who've seen this recommendation before, but the best SF book, or any book, that i've read in the past 5 years was "The Time Traveler's Wife"
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Christophe
<cburke55@comcast.net> wrote:
You can skip, "Zodiac", though. It was his first and most definitely not in the same league as his later books.
And don't forget William Gibson! Try "Idoru".
Chris
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DEFINATELY the Diamond Age, or from the same author Snow Crash.
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