Book review - diamond age (Neal Stephenson)

[cybermule]

I quite liked this. The best bit was the primer. I liked the mythologising. I didn't like that the book pointed it out to me, but it was nonetheless good. I can see why Gaiman is a fan. The stuff surrounding the primer was kind of random and disjointed and not particularly well-written. Which was a shame as I generally like cyberpunk, and the steampunk-ish aspects were cool for a bit, but then, yeah, well.

I will try his other books though.

Comments

[girfan.livejournal.com]

I really like Cryptonomicon!

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Ah - just reserved it from the library.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

All his books are splendid. Though some of the recent ones do require a bit of an attention span!

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Oo. I feel an attack of skim-reading coming on.

[inulro.livejournal.com]

I have two of the Quicksilver trilogy, and Anathem, should you wish to borrow them.

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Have a fortnight's holiday in August, so will take you up on that.

[weemadharold.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed Diamond Age but found the ending left a little something to be desired, somehow. All in all I preferred Snow Crash, and there lies the current limit of my Stephenson knowledge!

[sepheri.livejournal.com]

I agree with the above comment I can't even seem to remember the ending so perhaps I gave up? I did love Snow Crash but I have found his more recent stuff to be impenetrable.