• jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    This is my favorite opening line:

    The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason.

    • Neal Stephenson, Seveneves
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        4 months ago

        His older books ended pretty well IMO. It was only the later books where they sometimes make a major turn near the end and get nuts. I sometimes enjoy the craziness of it, but Seveneves was particularly jarring.

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          4 months ago

          I disagree, cryptonomicon’s ending just comes out of left field with the introduction of a new character at the end of the book.

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            4 months ago

            Fair point, I forgot about cryptonomicon’s ending. I guess Stephenson has been pulling this forever.

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            4 months ago

            I honestly couldn’t finish it.

            It changed from an excellent comedy at the start, to a spy thriller, to a war action movie and then to some kind of tech-startup biography.

            Insane changes in pace. Did I miss a good ending then? I’ve got about 20% left.

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              4 months ago

              I like to believe that his editor told him that enough was enough and that we had to end the damn book. And, if it was not for the editor he would still be writing the book, not not revising it, just making it longer and longer.

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        4 months ago

        Disaster Area’s songs are on the whole very simple and mostly follow the familiar theme of boy-being meets girl-being beneath silvery moon, which then explodes for no adequately explored reason.