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I enjoy the plot where multiple groups converge on a single location to get their hands on some key object. It's the same structure as two of my favorite movie
by nissimk 12y ago
I enjoy the plot where multiple groups converge on a single location to get their hands on some key object. It's the same structure as two of my favorite movies: The Fifth Element and True Romance. When the groups are stereotypes as in True Romance, I find it even more entertaining. Reamde had all of that: bikers, anti government mountain people who are armed to the teeth and gangsters from multiple foreign countries :-)
I'll see if I can check out Anathem at some point, but Baroque is really too much of a commitment for me. I'm a slow reader.
Edit: Anathem not Anathema (thanks __david__ and lmm)
- lmm 12y agoAnathem, not Anathema. Books I've liked recently that have done that sort of thing: Rainbows End, or if you're willing to venture a little further in genre then Stardust (by a different Neil).
- tormeh 12y agoRainbows End is amazing.
- ghaff 12y agoI think that's one of the things (about Reamde) that most bothered me about that novel. All sorts of amazing coincidences needed to happen or there wasn't a story. I actually found it easier to get into than some of his other books but was generally unsatisfied at the end.