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"Snow Crash" and "Cryptonomicon" seemed pretty accessible to me, much more so than "The Baroque Cycle." I think it's marketing aimed at getting readers who were
by TYPE_FASTER 15y ago
"Snow Crash" and "Cryptonomicon" seemed pretty accessible to me, much more so than "The Baroque Cycle." I think it's marketing aimed at getting readers who were turned off by TBC to pick up the new book.
- arethuza 15y agoI've found The Baroque Cycle to be an awful lot easier to get into through the Audible audiobook version - they are unabridged so it's not that!
- chris11 15y agoI'll try reading it then. I got the audio books, but only made it partly through the first one.
- atourgates 15y agoYou know, as I read through the comments on this story, I'm struck that the concept of accessibility is quite personal. I'm pretty sure I've seen every single one of Stephenson's books been called his "most accessible" somewhere in this thread. In my experience, "The Baroque Cycle" was Stephenson's most accessible, while "Anathem" and "Cryptonomicon" were the hardest to get my mind around. However, I don't think this has as much to do with Stephenson's writing, as it does with the fact that I was an English Lit major, and can barely wrap my brain around math. E.g. - a complex web of semi-historical figures? No problem! Plot-lines that revolve around mathematical concepts? Oh god, my brain just exploded.