BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoWhat other great opening lines do you know?.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square194fedilinkarrow-up1305arrow-down12
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minus-squareNewsteinleo@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoI disagree, cryptonomicon’s ending just comes out of left field with the introduction of a new character at the end of the book.
minus-squarezod000@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoFair point, I forgot about cryptonomicon’s ending. I guess Stephenson has been pulling this forever.
minus-squaresunbytes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoI 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.
minus-squareNewsteinleo@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoI 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.
minus-squaresunbytes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoHaha he could have just written three to five books instead.
I disagree, cryptonomicon’s ending just comes out of left field with the introduction of a new character at the end of the book.
Fair point, I forgot about cryptonomicon’s ending. I guess Stephenson has been pulling this forever.
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.
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.
Haha he could have just written three to five books instead.