I love Stephenson and, till I got around to the Diamond Age, everything he wrote.
I just couldn't do this one. Not sure why. Maybe it was reading so mu...moreI love Stephenson and, till I got around to the Diamond Age, everything he wrote.
I just couldn't do this one. Not sure why. Maybe it was reading so much of his later work first gave me the (unjustified) feeling he was covering old ground. I'll take the blame for that. Maybe I'll try and get back to it again at some point in the future.(less)
It's not TERRIBLE writing. It's more that the first fifty pages or so were all world building. Every sentence, every word dedicated to world-building....moreIt's not TERRIBLE writing. It's more that the first fifty pages or so were all world building. Every sentence, every word dedicated to world-building. Maybe this is a function of new parenthood, age, something, but I can't deal with that right now. This may be a character failure. I'm cool with that. I need some sort of hook beyond hello read my endless meandering descriptions of the things in my head.(less)