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Snow Crash was brilliant and 'clean.' I felt Cryptonomicon was not so cleanly written. Almost as if he shrugged off any editor's comments and left in every possible turn of phrase that caught his fancy. While it was enjoyable and explored several large themes I continue hesitating to dive into the Baroque cycle. His ancestral/reincarnated lead characters are just too cute as a concept. I figure to tackle Anathem first.
I was a little disappointed by the Diamond Age. I consider myself an above-average reader and still I had to work too hard to flesh out the background. It probably hurt that my gut feeling is if we ever manipulated nanoscopic self-replicating machinery to that extent we'd kill our entire race before gaining the control suggested there (e.g. Crichton's Prey or maybe just grey goo).
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