07-06-2011, 10:27 PM | #31 |
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Anyone else read the books he co-authored with his uncle? I just finished The Cobweb which was kind of meh, and I have Interface but haven't started it yet. But it sounds promising. Curious what others think of them.
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07-07-2011, 01:57 AM | #32 |
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I actually thought pretty much all of the Baroque Cycle -- or at least the first 1 1/2 books I managed to get through -- was lazy and weak. A real letdown after his earlier books. (But then I had the same reaction to Iain Banks's Surface Detail. I mean, not everybody can be David Foster Wallace.)
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11-06-2011, 04:17 PM | #35 |
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Loved all his work up to and including Cryptonomicon (including his Bury books)- just couldn't get into Baroque Cycle or Anathem at all.
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Yeah, I think this author is just more and more "caught up in it" -- I get the impression that his popularity has kinda gone to his head and he's trying to be 'literary' moreso than trying to write good books like he used to.
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