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Glanced at MJ's guidelines per withering two line capsules for each novel. Maybe I'll prove craven for the task in this case.RP was so nerdy and so me for a long stretch. It was almost a protest vote. See, this is who I really am. I don't need to be with you. Oh dear, that was too much, no? Waxing personal, yet again. I later found a door slammed in my face over an adoration for Richard Powers. Maybe that stung, festered, and influenced subsequent understanding? Maybe I matured as a reader? Maybe Richard Powers hit an arid patch?
Bibliography: hacked away from wikiland.(1985) Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance
(1988) Prisoner's Dilemma
(1991) The Gold Bug Variations
(1993) Operation Wandering Soul
(1995) Galatea 2.2
(1998) Gain
(2000) Plowing the Dark
(2003) The Time of Our Singing
(2006) The Echo Maker
(2009) Generosity
Everything about this guy makes me think he'd be my next favorite author. I might give Three Farmers a go to test out the water. (I'm trying to do the chronological thing as much as I can.)
I found Galatea 2.2 a terrifc entrypoint to Powersland. Mind you, I still haven't read a second book by him so something went wrong there.
MJ wrote: "I found Galatea 2.2 a terrifc entrypoint to Powersland."I second that emotion.
Should you desire, you needn't be intimidated by the rather smart Gold-Bug. Galatea 2.2 is my next Powers and it'll be close to being a make-r-break.
I've read G2.2 at least twice; it is th em"moral core" of Richard Powers, whatever that means, agonizingly confessional, its exploration of artificial intelligence is touching and illuminating.
Nathan "N.R." wrote: "Should you desire, you needn't be intimidated by the rather smart Gold-Bug. Galatea 2.2 is my next Powers and it'll be close to being a make-r-break."I, not having read TGBV yet, still suspect that if you've read TGBV, you will enjoy G2.2.
I've read almost all of the novels. That will be corrected soon.