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> For many of us on this website, we'd probably think of Neal Stephenson, who might have long digressions about cryptographic schemes, or Lagrange points, or wh
by aidenn0 3y ago
> For many of us on this website, we'd probably think of Neal Stephenson, who might have long digressions about cryptographic schemes, or Lagrange points, or whatever other "cool science fact" might be tangentially related to the plot.
I don't know why I never put two-and-two together for this. I find both Melville and later Stephenson to be equally tedious. The similarity is how many words they spend just showing off how good they are at writing.
- everybodyknows 3y agoYou'll definitely want skip past the military strategy sections of War and Peace.
- aidenn0 3y agoEh, I tend to avoid abridged versions (or self-abridging); there are enough good books out there that I am willing to encounter on the author's terms that I don't feel the need to do otherwise.