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My biggest problem with Snow Crash was at the end of the book. The author has done this in other books too, where you have a very detailed story but then it fe
by derekp7 6y ago
My biggest problem with Snow Crash was at the end of the book. The author has done this in other books too, where you have a very detailed story but then it feels like the end gets rushed. Kind of like another 200 pages of novel get squeezed down to 12 pages.
- sneak 6y agoThis is absolutely par for the course for Stephenson. He's written at least 4 books like this, as far as I can tell. Seveneves in particular is 700 pages of incredible, next-level worldbuilding, then the potential for 3 more 300+ page volumes compressed into 180 pages. It's like at the 700 page mark the "wrap it up" light comes on, and he hastily bookends it.
- DuskStar 6y agoStephenson is great at starting stories. Arguably he does this several times in each book. He can't write endings for shit, though. (Every book of his that I've read - Anathem, Seveneves, Reamde, Cryptonomicon/Snow Crash/The Diamond Age, and more - all fail to come to a satisfactory ending. But I keep reading, because the rest of the books are good...)
- jsolson 6y agoCryptonomicon and Anathem get endings of a sort... later :)
- greedo 6y agoThe Baroque Cycle seems to end well IMHO.