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I tried to read Cryptonomicon as a first introduction to Stephenson. Kept waiting for the good parts, and actually just stopped reading halfway through out of s
by _1100 5y ago
I tried to read Cryptonomicon as a first introduction to Stephenson. Kept waiting for the good parts, and actually just stopped reading halfway through out of sheer boredom.
A few years later and I read Seveneves. Absolutely fall in love, and read Anathem right after. Loved it too.
To this day I still don’t understand why the first book felt so boring and the others didn’t. To make it worse, when you go looking for a synopsis of Cryptonomicon, everyone is so vague!
- d1str0 5y agoCheck out Snowcrash! I liked Snowcrash but thought Cryptonomicon was incredibly boring as well.
- _1100 5y agoI’ll have to do this then, thanks!
- mylons 5y agohaha! I felt the same way about Seveneves, although I guess that doesn’t have as much hype. The premise for the opening chapter was so cool, and then the exhaustive descriptions of spaceships and orbital mechanics and what not was just too dry. Maybe I’ll give it another attempt in a few years.
- abraxas 5y agoYeah, I can't get aboard the Stephenson train either. I tried and failed to finish Seveneves for the same reason. I can't believe someone managed to make an end of the world novel this boring.
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