Saturday, January 18
Could Have Sworn...
I could have sworn I wrote this in my review of Neal Stephenson's Anathem, but I can't find it or my review of Neal Stephenson's Anathem, so here goes.
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I could have sworn I wrote this in my review of Neal Stephenson's Anathem, but I can't find it or my review of Neal Stephenson's Anathem, so here goes.
Pixy's Law of Neuroscience: The intersection of consciousness and quantum mechanics is bullshit.
Oh, and since I seem to have lost my review of Neal Stephenson's Anathem, here's a capsule version.
Anathem, by Neal Stephenson
Tedious and interminable story populated by dishwater characters rises to a climax spectacular only in the disappointment it brings. The individual sentences are well-crafted - and some of the paragraphs too - but as a novel it fails in every other possible way.
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So you liked it, then?
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Saturday, January 18 2014 03:44 AM (+rSRq)
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So I'm good if I continue to not read Neal Stephenson, got it.
I completed my second read-through of Iain M Banks' "Consider Phlebas," and am tempted to write a capsule review not entirely unlike what you've done here, by the way. ("Train cars fall, everybody dies.")
I completed my second read-through of Iain M Banks' "Consider Phlebas," and am tempted to write a capsule review not entirely unlike what you've done here, by the way. ("Train cars fall, everybody dies.")
Posted by: GreyDuck at Saturday, January 18 2014 04:30 AM (3m7pZ)
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I did not enjoy it on the same level as his other works. Cryptonomicon was fantastic, and the Baroque series had a good mix of "rollicking hijinks" and "Renaissance-era economic theory" that worked particularly well for me, even if it had some slow periods. Anathem was all right, but yeah, I mostly enjoyed it for the prose, not the story.
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at Saturday, January 18 2014 05:49 AM (IopVv)
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I love Neal Stephenson's writing; I just don't like his books.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, January 18 2014 11:58 AM (PiXy!)
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So, pretty much like any other Stephenson book then?
Posted by: Wonderduck at Tuesday, January 21 2014 03:14 PM (eYYyy)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, January 21 2014 09:38 PM (2yngH)
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