I have thought about reading it but I am not really interested in politicaly motivated cyberpunk. Am I wrong in thinking that is what this book is?
And as Tim said, no he is not pushing an agenda. I feel like he is more or less tossing out ideas and tries to see which sticks on the wall... Quite mad, but you don't need to be concerned that your sensitive conservative politics get thrashed. I think, anyway. Been a good while since I read it.
"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world" - Calvin.
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson - discuss
11/04/2010 07:59:35 AM
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I enjoyed it very much.
11/04/2010 11:51:23 AM
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Great fun to read, full of awesome ideas. Does to linguistics what Dan Brown did to history, but hey
13/04/2010 11:22:41 PM
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He nailed Second Life, though. *NM*
14/04/2010 01:40:06 AM
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I guess so. And it probably won't be too long before we have gargoyles walking around. *NM*
14/04/2010 08:46:57 AM
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and google earth is modeled after the "earth" program from the book... *NM*
14/04/2010 04:42:52 PM
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it is cyberpunk right?
16/04/2010 06:35:57 PM
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If you mean "Is he pushing a political agenda?", absolutely not.
18/04/2010 04:27:47 PM
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I may have to put it back on to be read list then
18/04/2010 07:34:57 PM
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What's your definition of "cyberpunk"?
18/04/2010 08:07:02 PM
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not having read much cyberpunk it isn't a well defined definition
19/04/2010 06:42:16 PM
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Theme-wise it's fairly close to what you describe, only not boring.
19/04/2010 08:02:16 PM
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Some sort of cyberpunk, yes.
18/04/2010 05:29:32 PM
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I feel there's definitely some anti-corporationism in there, but it's wildly exaggerated. *NM*
19/04/2010 07:46:21 PM
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