Hey Beehaw, whatcha reading right now?

  • gromnar@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Snow crash was great back in the days! I recall 14 years old-me being upset at the "wrong acronym* but I remember it as great fun. I was coming from the darker novels and short stories by Gibson and Sterling and the lighter touch by Neal Stephenson (and others, like … Rudy Rucker if I am not mistaken) felt nice, while at the same time did not drop the expectations on being engaged on the same kind of reflections/analyses on the human nature like the previous cyberpunk novels.

    Those were the times! Plus, I was playing a lot of Cyberpunk 2020 (the tabletop rpg)… :-)

    • rancidity9480@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I’m not sure what isn’t connecting with me. You know how when you try to get into an early, influential work - be it a book, movie, whatever - you see the origin of all kinds of tropes and you KNOW this thing came first, but you can’t get over the tropiness of some things? I think that’s kind of what it is.

      I’m determined to finish it this week though, I need to move on to other things.