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I assumed all of his books read like this. Stephenson is great at building a world and characters but once the story needs to stumble into some kind of ending,
by protonfish 11y ago
I assumed all of his books read like this. Stephenson is great at building a world and characters but once the story needs to stumble into some kind of ending, it all gets contrived and uninteresting. (Right now I am stalled at 75% of Snow Crash.)
- ionwake 11y agoSnowCrash had an awesome ending! Man if only he had picked me to build a game with him maybe stuff would have gone better
- protonfish 11y agoThanks! That will help me get motivated to finish it. I really enjoyed most of it so far.
- obstinate 11y agoSnow Crash is a much better book if you skim all the stuff about the ancient Mesopotamians. He gets a little off into the weeds with that stuff, and apparently the editor failed to cut things back properly.
- EdwardCoffin 11y agoStephenson had an Authors @Google talk in 2008 [1], which was mostly about his book Anathem. In it he actually addressed what he calls the "Stephenson can't write endings" meme, as he calls it, at 10:54 going on for about three minutes [2]. I think his endings are just fine, myself, and also think that this whole idea that he can't write endings is just a self-perpetuating meme. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnq-2BJwatE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnq-2BJwatE [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnq-2BJwatE&t=10m54s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnq-2BJwatE&t=10m54s
- prezjordan 11y agoDefinitely finish the book. Are you at the weird ancient studies part of the book? It wraps up quick and gets right back to awesome.