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i'm like 200 pages into Quicksilver right now.
it's tougher for me to get into than Cryptonomicon. And it think it's because it doesn't jump between characters like in crypto. i liked going from some interesting technical stuff with waterhouse to the adventure stuff with shaftoe and eventually goto dengo. this is all one character or story line, and then i guess shaftoe comes later.
still great though.
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I love Neal Stephenson, but I barely made it through Quicksilver. There are just too many references to people and places I don't know and couldn't keep track of. I'm definitely going to reread sometime, with the hope that it'll be more comprehensible the second time around.
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What's scary about Stephenson's books is that so much is plausible because of the amount of historical research he does.
BTW, his MetaWeb thing sounds really frequin' interesting, but I don't know how he's going to police it. And if a lot of people start adding to it and editing it, how's he going to find editors willing to comb through all that crap and not even get paid for it?
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Yeah. So does it only depend on the kinds of people who are attracted to the site? Is that good enough?
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