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Re: WAY OFF TOPIC: GET TIME TRAVELLERS WIFE NOW!!!
warren is right about THE TIME TRAVELLERS WIFE.
it's just beautiful!
warren may be right about cryptonomicon, but concerning diamond age i
still am of the opinion that stephenson has managed to do gain position
of "jules verne of our time".
tilmann
Warren Sirota schrieb:
> 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
> <mailto: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
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "mark francombe" <mark@markfrancombe.com
> <mailto:mark@markfrancombe.com>>
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> <mailto:Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2009 6:14:55 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: WAY OFF TOPIC: recommendations for great science
> fiction written in the last 10 years?
>
> DEFINATELY the Diamond Age, or from the same author Snow Crash.
>
> What Neil Stevendon does is present you with a world for a bit (
> Nano technology works, in Diamond Age, or Everyone has a second
> virtual life in Snow Crash) and then gives you a run of the mill
> exiting rollacoaster of a novel, based on those presumptions.. LOVE
> HIM... < br>
> I just read Anathem, his latest, also genius, but a bit long and
> heavy for a "trip book"..
>
> Of the 3 .. Diamond Age, lots of cool stuff.. changed the way I
> think about e-learning (my day-job) as a matter of fact...
>
> enjoy
>
> M
>
> PS:
> but surely.. all planes have SO MUCH inflight fun... catch up on all
> them films you missed... play Super Mario... Or my favorite... (but
> expensive) use the seat-back phone to call a random seat for a
>chat!!!
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