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Serendipitous, I'm also about 75% of the way through! It's one of the most beautiful books I've ever read. Perhaps the most. I very highly recommend it, thoug
by LMYahooTFY 6y ago
Serendipitous, I'm also about 75% of the way through!
It's one of the most beautiful books I've ever read. Perhaps the most.
I very highly recommend it, though I imagine much of HN's audience has done so or is at least aware of it.
- rjknight 6y agoI'm also 75% of the way through... my fourth read-through. It's notable how my opinion of the major characters changes each time I read it.
- 3001 6y agoPlease reply your take when you are 99% of the way through
- killion 6y agoI had the exact same thought. There is no feeling like the frustration of a disappointing ending after being engrossed in a Neal Stephenson book. When they were paper books at least you could throw them across the room. Now that would break my phone.
- ridruejo 6y agoShare your frustration. This one did not disappoint me though
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- kkylin 6y agoI haven't been disappointed by the endings of his more recent novels: Cryptonomicon, Anathem, Seveneves. (I did not enjoy time spent on REAMDE, that being the only exception.)
- jgon 6y agoOf those 3 I was only somewhat happy with Anathem. I couldn't finish REAMDE and Seveneves convinced me that I may not read another one of his books again, unless it debuts to unanimous critical acclaim or something similar. I thought the ending of Cryptonomicon was pretty weak but the rest of the novel leading up to it was so fantastic that I didn't care. Honestly I found the Baroque Cycle to have the best ending of any of his works, and I would describe it as the one time I was happy with both the journey and the destination of a Stephenson novel.
- kkylin 6y agoOf those three I was initially least interested in reading Anathem. Maybe as a result, I was most pleasantly surprised by it. Agree that none of these compare to the Baroque Cycle.
- dharmab 6y agoI've devoured several of his books multiple times but could not finish REAMDE.
- kkylin 6y agoYeah, I kinda forced myself through that one. Not sure it was a good decision.
- robbiep 6y agoI read Reamde after Dodge and it made a lot more sense
- InTheArena 6y agoI loved the ending to the baroque cycle, but otherwise. Yeah. This.
- comboy 6y agoIt's .. fine. To me NS books are not much about the plot though. I'm floored how many things that guy knows and how creatively he connect them.
- emsal 6y agoThat's true, I don't even remember the ending to Snow Crash which I read some ~6 years ago. The unraveling premise that comes about in the ~3rd quarter of the book is what stuck with me. Think it'll be the same for Cryptonomicon.
- LMYahooTFY 6y agoI've finished it. I thoroughly loved it. I don't want to go into any spoiling detail if you haven't read it? It's only been some hours, so I'm honestly still processing a lot of it. I'll definitely be rereading it. It's considerably grander in scale than Snow Crash, his only other Novel I've read so far, but I'm quite excited to read his other novels.