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awesmoe posted:I don't really get how people can think it's bad. Surely you understand that he's taking the same approach he took to (eg) philosophy in anathem, and applying it to tom clancy? Maybe the subject matter isn't your cup of tea but it's absolutely trademark stephenson My complaint is that a lot of it is completely jettisoned with no payoff. What ever happens with the "War of Realignment"? It completely drops out of the novel and never comes back. That's a shitload of words wasted on something with no payoff. Maybe Stephenson was making some kind of a commentary on priorities and how as soon as somebody Dodge cared about was in danger that stopped to be important to him, but if that's the case then I think he could have cut the entire subplot by 50% and still made the same point. And if he was trying to make a pastiche of tehcno-thrillers that put in red herring plot points then it's even worse. To misquote the Filthy Critic, you can wink and laugh when you poo poo on my chest about how ironic is is, but I still have poo poo on my chest.
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taser rates posted:I've always disliked that comic because Anathem has an actual good reason for doing things that way. I agree. And I always thought Stephenson was being a bit tongue-in-cheek with it and making fun of the trope by coming up with random objects to replace instead of the typical "plascrete" or whatever. "Hamburgs" or whatever it was stood out to me that way.
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