tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12843455.post8242653414251768514..comments2023-11-04T03:33:38.419-04:00Comments on You Are My Minions: Fine. Politics, Then.Landruhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11954074164878242561noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12843455.post-68701159151383712632010-10-20T07:02:23.291-04:002010-10-20T07:02:23.291-04:00As I mentioned to both of you privately last night...As I mentioned to both of you privately last night, I read a little about Anathem and realized that, if our man Neal has nothing better to do than to sit in his attic and reinvent language, I can give him a few years to come back to the world of comprehensible meaning, while I reread <i>The Diamond Age</i> and <i>Cryptonomicon</i> a few hundred times (I'm okay with <i>Snow Crash</i>, but it's not my favorite).<br /><br />I'm also sympathetic to an argument that the man had his final orgasm over that line of thought with the Baroque Cycle, and he needed to strike off in a different direction. But again, that doesn't mean I have to follow.<br /><br />Not the tangent I expected to be off on, after such a post of tormented, self-eviscerating spew with such an unsatisfactory conclusion. But I'm not the master baiter I used to be.Landruhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11954074164878242561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12843455.post-50891332855876385442010-10-19T17:44:02.525-04:002010-10-19T17:44:02.525-04:00No need for that. Anathem is neither A Clockwork ...No need for that. Anathem is neither A Clockwork Orange nor Snow Crash. It seems that Mr. Stephenson has gotten a bit taken with himself. Not without reason, mind you, but his self-consciousness comes, sadly, at the cost of fluid prose. Not awful, mind you, but it doesn't soar either.Sashanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12843455.post-73022127385483857852010-10-19T16:47:40.554-04:002010-10-19T16:47:40.554-04:00Really?
Really.
Wait, so - there's an army...Really?<br /><br />Really. <br /><br />Wait, so - there's an army of . . . children? That do, what exactly?<br /><br />I much, much, much prefer the Baroque Cycle, where at LEAST you get a battle on the steps of the Paris Opera, the culmination of (as you correctly point out) nearly 1000 pages of moderately interesting fiction based on the idea that Leibniz is cast as Judas in JC Superstar. Fucking Epic.<br /><br />Not that I don't like the Diamond Age, mind you, but what the fuck? I lay you $ against round pastry with holes in the middle you never bothered to try Anathem, on the grounds that it couldn't possibly be worth the trouble.<br /><br />And, no shit, "podule."Purplestatenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12843455.post-3091941995321892152010-10-19T14:22:52.205-04:002010-10-19T14:22:52.205-04:00I can't say most of what I want to say because...I can't say most of what I want to say because I fear that Blogger will ban your blog. So, in passing, I need to mention that Rand (who likes to call himself "Randy") must have the smallest organ east of Asia. And that I am so sick of Democrats being afraid to say what they mean that I could puke right here and now.<br /><br />Oh, yeah. You failed to mention that the brown people are really Asians from Canada.Sashanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12843455.post-63559256029612260882010-10-19T10:34:53.420-04:002010-10-19T10:34:53.420-04:00"...which is not to suggest that any of this ..."...which is not to suggest that any of this post should be taken as coherent."<br /><br />Whew, thanks for the warning! The stream of consciousness nature of your political rants was beginning to make me feel as though certain recreational activities embraced in the 80s and early 90s might really have had a detrimental and lasting effect on my cognitive processes. Good to know it's you and not me.GrizzlyPlaytoy4Renthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07552843132267194436noreply@blogger.com