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REAMDE turned out excellently. Wonderful read. Blue Mars is cranking up towards the end; there's some HUGE ideas about the future of humanity in there. Robinson is a crazy perv who can write.
 
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Uh-oh... dare I ask? I'm just about to move onto 12, when does it get bad?
Mat, The other two were nice changes as they were too damn emo to begin with. Mat just sounds like hes trying to hard to be funny.
 
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fuk u. Changes was all kinds of awesome.
I liked Changes, but Ghost Story sucked balls. Reading Cold Days right now, so far so good.
 
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Mat, The other two were nice changes as they were too damn emo to begin with. Mat just sounds like hes trying to hard to be funny.
Nooooooooooooo! ****! At the start of 11 I actually started enjoying his/Tuon's story.
 
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REAMDE turned out excellently. Wonderful read. Blue Mars is cranking up towards the end; there's some HUGE ideas about the future of humanity in there. Robinson is a crazy perv who can write.
Not sure where the crazy perv part comes from but Kim Stanley Robinson's vision of the future of Mars is absolutely amazing.
 
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REAMDE turned out excellently. Wonderful read. Blue Mars is cranking up towards the end; there's some HUGE ideas about the future of humanity in there. Robinson is a crazy perv who can write.
Yeah I think Green Mars was the hardest to get through but the payoff in Blue Mars made it worth it. All the other colonization **** was awesome.

Also yes REAMDE was surprisingly good. Have you read his other books like Snow Crash or The Diamond Age?
 
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Yeah I think Green Mars was the hardest to get through but the payoff in Blue Mars made it worth it. All the other colonization **** was awesome.

Also yes REAMDE was surprisingly good. Have you read his other books like Snow Crash or The Diamond Age?
The Mars trilogy did get horribly slow at times.

Robinson sort of gets Hemingway syndrome at times - so caught up in the prose that he forgets the plotting.
 
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Mat, The other two were nice changes as they were too damn emo to begin with. Mat just sounds like hes trying to hard to be funny.
I don't mind Matt's changes too much... Although, he was nearly perfect before so I can understand what you mean. I still think that Perrin&Rand's change was such a drastic improvement that it excuses any minor downturn with Matt.
 
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what i meant is.

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I felt the same way... I know that an ending where **** isn't resolved and everyone just kind of ****s off their own way is more realistic and unexpected, but I felt lack of closure from it. Otherwise I enjoyed the books.
 
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Not sure where the crazy perv part comes from but Kim Stanley Robinson's vision of the future of Mars is absolutely amazing.
The sex scenes. When he gets going on being "tabled", and some of the sexual body mods he gets into in "2312". Agreed, his vision of the future is expansive, but some of the sex stuff was just...thrown in there. It seemed out of place, since it wasn't much touched on (hehehe) in prior books.
 
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Yeah I think Green Mars was the hardest to get through but the payoff in Blue Mars made it worth it. All the other colonization **** was awesome.

Also yes REAMDE was surprisingly good. Have you read his other books like Snow Crash or The Diamond Age?
Nope, but I fully intend to get his other books. Oddly, REAMDE wasn't really sci-fi or fantasy per se; it was more of a spy novel/adventure than anything else.
 
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so i went to download 'magician' but i seem to have some kind of harry potter ****ing book called 'magicians' what the **** is this and is it any good?
 
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Nope, but I fully intend to get his other books. Oddly, REAMDE wasn't really sci-fi or fantasy per se; it was more of a spy novel/adventure than anything else.
Definitely read snow crash. Its premise is ridiculous but also it makes sense. The story starts out in one way and then changes to the classic Stephenson madness. Pretty awesome really. Plus the main character's name is Hiro Protagonist, sort of sets a tone.
 
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snow crash was pretty good and interesting. my favorite stephenson work. i couldn't get into anathema, couldn't find cyptonomicon, and haven't seen audio README yet. so uh

a lot of competition.
 
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I know someone who might have an audiobook version of REAMDE...

also I thought anathem was terrible. I got through it but only barely.

edit: we should have a separate thread to recommend good audiobooks. Some are better in audiobook format than actually reading due to kick ass casts or readers (world war z, ice and fire books etc).
 
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that is a good idea fal
i could contribute to that thread since I've listened to about 300 of them on my commute.
maybe i'll go start one.
 
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As much as I liked Snow Crash, it was a disjointed mess compared to his other work. I was a big fan of Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptomonicon. Currently reading the Mongoliad with mixed thoughts.

Finished Ready Player One, not sure how that book came so highly recommended. The big 80's circle jerk got tiring, especially considering the writing was just ok.

Also read Prodigy, about a super elite school which is overthrown by the students. It was good, but predictable.

Read The Revisionists which was good, it was very Fringe/Observer like with an untrustworthy narrator.

Going to read The Twelve, sequel to The Passage, after I done with my current book.
 
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