Kevin's Watch

getting ready to jump into neal stephenson's new book, Reamde.

he says it's "just a thriller" no fantastical elements, but it's neal stephenson.
we shall see.

I can't help it. Every time I see "Reamde," I read it as "Readme". I wonder if that was deliberate on the marketers' part.

I happen to be reading Anathem by NS for the first time. So far it's better than I had been led to expect. Didn't know there was another book out after that one.

Reading Shadow and Claw (specifically, into Claw of the Conciliator) by Gene Wolfe again.

The Awakened Mage, part two of Karen Miller's Kingmaker, Kingbreaker.

Apparently I'm rereading Outlander. Saw it when I loaded all my Reader books onto the Nook, opened it to make sure it worked, and, well...

aliantha wrote:I can't help it. Every time I see "Reamde," I read it as "Readme". I wonder if that was deliberate on the marketers' part.

heh. i see Remade. i heard him pronounce it. ream-dee. no clue what that means but i reckon i'll find out.

wayfriend wrote:I happen to be reading Anathem by NS for the first time. So far it's better than I had been led to expect. Didn't know there was another book out after that one.

oddly, i read Snow Crash (which i LOVED) and The Diamond Age (which i only liked) and started Cryptonomicon (which i couldn't get into and put down after a couple chapters and never picked back up) but really haven't read anymore neal since then. i always figured i'd get back around to reading more or attempting Cryptonomicon again. he's such a quirky guy and writer that it seems worth it to try again, but i knew Reamde was coming out cause it'd been advert'd on kindle store and when i read the blurb it seemed like what i'm in the mood for just now.
(honestly, after reading all 16 of lee child's jack reacher books, i really want more reacher but as the rolling stones are wont to say....well you know. heh)

aliantha wrote:Apparently I'm rereading Outlander. Saw it when I loaded all my Reader books onto the Nook, opened it to make sure it worked, and, well...

LOL!! hilare. but am i to understand you never read it before???? if that's the case WOW are you in for a ride!!

lucimay wrote:
(honestly, after reading all 16 of lee child's jack reacher books, i really want more reacher but as the rolling stones are wont to say....well you know. heh)

Several things:

The Rolling Stones wrote:Can't get no... satisfaction

Can't always get what you waa-ant... but if you try sometimes... you just might find... you get what you neeed!

But it's alllll riiiiight now, in fact it's a gas!

Also, I could not get into Cryptonomicon.

Orlion wrote:Also, I could not get into Cryptonomicon.

wayfriend wrote:

Orlion wrote:Also, I could not get into Cryptonomicon.

Quick! Someone get the salts!

Orlion wrote: Also, I could not get into Cryptonomicon.

Honest to God, I loved Snowcrash so much that I re-read Cryptonomicon because I thought surely it couldn't be that boring, I MUST have missed something.
Alas, I was wrong.
And Anathem, I just think he's flat our wrong on the parts that are a lecture to the reader calling them stupid if they don't agree disguised as a story, and of the vast array of good conflict/ideas that could have come from the premise he chose all the most boring ones...though they were marginally just naturally more interesting than the ones in Crypto...therefore a marginally more interesting book.

I loved Snow Crash. Haven't tried a single other thing by him though.

--A

I like Cryptonomicon a lot, even if I don't understand it all (especially the crypto).
The Baroque Cycle is simply amazing and will have to be reread one day (if time allows...)

sindatur wrote:Psssst....Lucimay, "Reread" implies one has read before, heh

erp.

Orlion wrote:

lucimay wrote:
(honestly, after reading all 16 of lee child's jack reacher books, i really want more reacher but as the rolling stones are wont to say....well you know. heh)

Several things:

The Rolling Stones wrote:Can't get no... satisfaction

Can't always get what you waa-ant... but if you try sometimes... you just might find... you get what you neeed!

But it's alllll riiiiight now, in fact it's a gas!

all of which apply.

Gene Wolfe's "Book of the New Sun". I'm almost finished with the second book.

I've just begun Terry Goodkind's Wizards First Rule.
This is the first Terry Goodkind book I have read and so far I am enjoying his writing style.

Good luck with that TOM!

I fear I need to buy the entire first and second chronicles AND the entire gap series again. I'd love a reread but I've read these books to shreds. Make tougher books Del Rey and Bantam!

Edit: or maybe I should get the e-versions...although SOME books I just like to have on the shelf.

SerScot wrote:Gene Wolfe's "Book of the New Sun". I'm almost finished with the second book.

Great books. Weird, but great.

--A