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gibson by contrast writes books that I go back to again and again, if nothing else for the sheer pleasure of his prose and the characters and imagery he creates.
Actual Play: Mage: the Awakening - At the Edge of All Things
Crypto is a series of vaugely connected short stories (some of which are mediocre at best) with a slapped-on ending that ranks among mankinds most aweful crimes (right up there with how fucking bad the ending of Diamond Age was).
an old chinese man leering at you
Actual Play: Mage: the Awakening - At the Edge of All Things
Story of my life.
i tried to read the one he did about Newton, which was a great idea and had some excellent scenes like shoving a knitting needle into his own eye, but i really didn't like that one either
i'm really trying to relax and read some nice pleasant genre fiction but i'm having a rough time. but i'm not in the mood to read, fuckin', grimdark McCarthy cowboy murders or hysterical realist musings on fractured immigrant families or whatever
Ehhh, just a lot of little things that pissed me off. I have to be fucking manager tomorrow (which I found out about at 10pm tonight) which means I have to go to work SUPER EARLY, which means
(A) I can't go see one of my favorite artists, Perc, DJ tonight, and
(B) I can't be dancing with a super attractive lady at said show, who was really bummed out I couldn't make it
And I had to loan my roommate a lot of money for some stuff. And the Celtics lost a heart breaker and got eliminated from the playoffs and probably ended the current era of the team. And I lost an ebay bid I was really hoping to win.
LOTS OF SHIT, DOGG
We are just not meant for this world, EM.
Also, if you're looking for some good historical metafiction about the enlightenment, read The Sot-Weed Factor. It's fucking perfect.
FCC: I was SOOOOOOO disappointed by Prometheus. Also, it was quite racist.
A) Go anyways
B) Dance the eff outta her
Make roommate get you more whiskey for penance!
After having met Stepherson once, it turned me off of reading his books.
I don't have any good stimulants, and since I had to give my roommate that money, I am quite broke at the moment.
There will be another time to see good techno with her. I was just really looking forward to it being tonight.
It was kind of long winded, in my opinion. I really liked it, but it really needed to be cut down a lot.
Whaaat. This is not true at all! The stories are nicely interconnected and it builds to that ending the entire time! And sure, learning about WWII-era Waterhouse running a fake huff-duff station wasn't exactly a thrill a minute, but it was still entertaining enough. I wouldn't call it mediocre. And I loved how he never shied away from going on a digression for a page or two to tell a little sub-story to get a particular feeling conveyed to the reader perfectly.
In conclusion, you are wrong except about The Diamond Age because what the fuck was that.
Oh no! I'm on the last 75 pages of Diamond Age.
You're a loose Cloud Fuzzy, I want your badge and your gun on my desk by 15:00hrs.
that's something i could read to someone else's children to freak them out, how delightful
more william gibson (virtual light, idoru, pattern recognition, or burning chrome, his book of shorts)
john crowley's little, big
algys budris's rogue moon
have you read any joe r. lansdale? he writes gothic texas mystery horror adventure comedy and yes there are no commas between those. they're short and punchy with a few scary scenes and some laughs and a lot of dialect wordplay.
greg rucka's atticus kodiak series, about a professional bodyguard to people like abortion doctors and tobacco witnesses, is exciting adventure stuff that's underlaid by some actual research. it's fun times in the vein of like "24" but you do come away feeling like you've learned a couple things, even if just about security tradecraft.
Actual Play: Mage: the Awakening - At the Edge of All Things
Eh, opinions differ. It didn't really surprise me, but it didn't offend me either. I love Diamond Age, admittedly not for its ending.
Zodiac, Snow Crash & Diamond Age remain my favorites of Stephenson's, but I was really young when I read them. Like, ridiculously young. Elementary school. I'm pretty sure I just can't judge their quality objectively; even to talk about their prose I'm just parroting complaints I've heard from other people. I'm glad I read them at a time when the stories and ideas utterly eclipsed any problem with the writing, because while I have heard consistently that it's subpar it still seemed just ducky to me when I went back to them for rereads a couple of years ago.
what was he like?
Actual Play: Mage: the Awakening - At the Edge of All Things
this seemed to work last night
Don't laugh, but I thought the exact same thing earlier today reading some peoples reviews/impressions.
like, I could take 12 and he would have no idea
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Simple sentences do not intimidate a struggling reader. More advanced readers like your writing because it is clear. In conclusion, I think that writing posts like a 4th grade book report is the best way to write posts.
Tastiest act of suicide ever?
prometheus is the new me3
Interesting. I cannot stand Gibson's writing. I recognize his contribution to the science fiction genre and I read Neuromancer because I felt like I needed to. I also tried reading Pattern Recognition, but couldn't get through it. I see that he has a lot of great ideas, but I just can't stand his writing.
Much love.
And they're all total fucking downers too. I was incredibly excited to see it but now my interest is waning. Based on aggregate reviews, I think if I had gone in with no preconceptions, I would have enjoyed it. But now it's like someone has farted in my dinner. Spray fart.
i love his writing but i could see why someone would not, definitely.
i also think he has excellent ideas, but neuromancer was weak in terms of character and plot (it was his first novel, i believe, so that's not unexpected)