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Just finished The Diamond Age, and I was slightly disappointed with its ending. It's almost as if he spent too much time with world building and character development and then said "poo poo, I need to wrap this up in the next 50 pages..." The plot flow didn't seem well balanced and would lose momentum here and there, especially in the second half. Nevertheless it was still an amazing book with a lot of interesting ideas and concepts. Anathem or Zodiak next?
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Meiteron posted:Speaking of pages, a couple years ago I got a chance to head to Seattle and visit the science and fiction museum that's in the Seattle Centre there when the original manuscript was still on display. Stephenson wrote the entire thing out on paper first, in longhand, before actually digitizing it for printing. That is absolutely mind boggling. I can't imagine the motivation it takes to sit down everyday and slog your way through writing a 3,000+ page series by hand. I have Quicksilver sitting on my bookshelf like some ancient tome and don't even have the motivation to begin reading it.
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