After last years dryness in the club I kind of stopped coming by here, but I'm glad to see the club has been a lot more alive those past few months. Guess I'll...
Currently re-reading Pattern Recognition- now that the adrenaline rush of the first read is well past, I can absorb more of the details and it just amazes me...
I'm just reading 'No Logo' at the moment, and its talking about the Cool Hunters and the rise of cool hunting agencies, which is pretty interesting to see...
... ?? details, please! , and its talking about the Cool ... interesting ... Yeah, I like that the "urban legend" about product name-droppers at the bar was...
... Its the book by Naomi Kleine about the rise of Branding and how marketing has changed so much in the past ten years, drawing the lines of the image ...
... influenced by ... and ... I've always really enjoyed Stephenson's work, but I think there's probably some differences in the overall tone of his books vs. ...
Last thing I remember Stephenson putting out was 'Cryptonomicon' which was, like Gibson's most recent book, set in the present day. But, unlike Gibson's book,...
1978
kadath@...
May 30, 2003 10:42 pm
... 'Quicksilver' is a few months off, it takes place about 300 years ago, I think, and it has some connections to 'Cryptonomicon'. I've pre-ordered it from...
I'd be happier with Stephenson if he tried less to be Thomas Pynchon. "Cryptonomicon" was ruined by his efforts to be *funny*. A story about codes and...
Gibson's style-- at least his early style --seems to me to have roots in the early work of Roger Zelazny. Look at Zelazny's "Death Car" and "This Moment of the...
... Theres a new one listed on Amazon, not released till Oct of this year - Quicksilver : Volume One of The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson (Author)...
1982
Todd Jarrard
toddjarrard@...
Jun 1, 2003 7:27 pm
I, for one, thought that Cryptonomicon was excellent. One of Stephensons' strongest skills is the epochal scale- multiple generations, large numbers of minor...
I wish I could be more elequent in why I did not like Cryptonomicon...really, all I can say is that, in the end, I simply didn't like any of the characters....
Especially not compared to such great work as 'The Diamond Age' and the classic 'Snow Crash'. So it *was* Stephenson that wrote "The Diamond Age". God. I...
... Yeah, even though i like Stephenson, i had a hard time finishing The Diamond Age - It was so long winded and micro-detailed to the point the plot moved so...
One thing I must say that I like is the well-plotted *caper* novel... A story of *how* something is done. Like Forsyth's "Day of the Jackal" explaining how to...
What is up? I am a new member to this group. I have been reading William Gibson's books for years now, some, like the Neuromancer series, over and over again....
I joined over a month ago and we had a flurry of discussion of Pattern Recognition and veered into some Neil Stephenson territory. I wondered tho as well if...
Welcome to the list, JP. Discussions here have been...weird. I just read "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom." Good read. I downloaded it for free and read...
Hi, new to the list. I was wondering if anyone has read RIM by Andrew Besher? Personally I don't mind it being a general cyber-punk discussion list. Maybe we...
I did a dumb newbie thing and sent a long, erudite and fascinating post about Pattern Recognition, Cryptonomicon, Ian Fleming and the resurgence of the...
Thorsten - I'm totally okay with any discussions that are cyberpunk related. Just as long as we don't get fools posting their unrelated poetry and music...
1996
Ganapati Durgadas
gdurgada@...
Jun 26, 2003 10:41 pm
Count me in, especially since I finished Pattern Recognition a couple of months ago, and its paradigm is still rotating thru my head......
1997
Ganapati Durgadas
gdurgada@...
Jun 26, 2003 10:41 pm
Very, very true. A Jeff Noon discussion group/list almost got side-swiped by spam and irrelevant postings......
1998
Ganapati Durgadas
gdurgada@...
Jun 26, 2003 10:45 pm
Am very big on Besher's Rim trilogy, especially because it involves Eastern Philosophy with a cyberpunk tongue-in-cheek attitude. Besher's work may not be as...
I've yet to crack open my copy of Cryptonomicon: its size is daunting, and other books pile up for me to read. Have enjoyed Stephenson's more rigourously...
