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Started by The Good Reverend Roger, April 19, 2013, 07:32:10 PM

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#45
June 05, 2014, 04:49:04 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on June 05, 2014, 02:07:08 PM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on June 02, 2014, 02:20:15 PM
Well, one thing for sure, is that it doesn't seem to have anything to do with airplane crashes or cannibalism.

Interest lost.

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#46
June 10, 2014, 06:27:58 AM
Okay, so I'm like 1/4 through lite-reading snow crash, and I'm kinda waiting for something to happen...  So turns out he also wrote Necronomicon, and I feel a little late to the party.  Thanks, you know who you are :oops:

LMNO

#47
June 10, 2014, 12:02:11 PM
Cryptonomicon.

And he also wrote "Anathem", which is one hell of a book.

The Good Reverend Roger

#48
June 10, 2014, 04:02:16 PM
Quote from: LuciferX on June 10, 2014, 06:27:58 AM
Okay, so I'm like 1/4 through lite-reading snow crash, and I'm kinda waiting for something to happen...  So turns out he also wrote Necronomicon, and I feel a little late to the party.  Thanks, you know who you are :oops:

Snow Crash sucked, really.

" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Good Reverend Roger

#49
June 10, 2014, 04:02:31 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on June 10, 2014, 12:02:11 PM
Cryptonomicon.

And he also wrote "Anathem", which is one hell of a book.

Cryptonomicon was amazing.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

minuspace

#50
June 10, 2014, 07:11:16 PM Last Edit: June 10, 2014, 07:16:02 PM by LuciferX
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on June 10, 2014, 04:02:31 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on June 10, 2014, 12:02:11 PM
Cryptonomicon.

And he also wrote "Anathem", which is one hell of a book.

Cryptonomicon was amazing.

Thanks for all the re-points.  Snow Crash was all playing like it had a great grip on this story, and it was failing to Deliverate.  :rbtg:
[I was not expecting the emoticon gape, eh, now I feel conflicted:  Disclaimer:  see what happens when you don't see things through :lol:]

Eater of Clowns

#51
June 10, 2014, 08:33:17 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on June 10, 2014, 12:02:11 PM
Cryptonomicon.

And he also wrote "Anathem", which is one hell of a book.

Is it? I'll have to pick it back up again at some point. After nearly 200 pages of what amounted to gobbledygook, I decided I was not in the right mood for it. That was about a year ago. I haven't quite given up on it though.
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EoC, you are the bane of my existence.

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EoC doesn't make creepy.

EoC makes creepy worse.

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the afflicted persons get hold of and consume carrots even in socially quite unacceptable situations.

LMNO

#52
June 10, 2014, 09:13:36 PM
Not to give away too much of the plot, but it's basically the best "show, don't tell" example of the Multiple Universes theory going.

A lot of other stuff happens, too.  And words.  Many, many words.  It's Hard SciFi at it's best, IMO.
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