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Effectronica posted:Snow Crash is bad and people recommending it are committing a minor war crime. I'll see you motherfuckers in the Hague. actually its really cool
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paranoid randroid posted:actually its really cool Another guy to arraign, special prosecutor.
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So did Stephenson stop writing about the far future? People like to bitch about Diamond Age but there's more imagination in the first forty pages of that book than most people have in their entire life.
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Effectronica posted:Another guy to arraign, special prosecutor. arraign my hanzo steel, chummer
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spirited posted:So did Stephenson stop writing about the far future? Hopefully. His historical novels are awesome.
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Effectronica posted:Snow Crash is bad and people recommending it are committing a minor war crime. I'll see you motherfuckers in the Hague. This is correct. Snow Crash is dumb poo poo for idiot retards. Gibson is okay.
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Snow crash seems hokey now but it was fun like 10 years ago. These however are frickin great http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/006147410X?pc_redir=1408113358&robot_redir=1 ^^ I've read that one at least 4 times and still find new good stuff I missed
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ive never been able to get through any cyberpunk novel and ive stomached a song of ice and fire by george r r martin as well as the collected works of ayn rand
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THS posted:ive never been able to get through any cyberpunk novel and ive stomached a song of ice and fire by george r r martin as well as the collected works of ayn rand what how
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child abuse
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WildWanderer posted:That didn't happen to Stephenson. Check out Reamde. i liked and read Stephenson until that book (anathem apparently) about the monk and there's a poorly shoehorned in language and its like a billion pages longer than cryptonomicon. is he still doing that kind of poo poo? ilikedirt posted:is pattern recognition any good i enjoyed pattern recognition at the time i read it. can't recall any of the story now though. we that means naem posted:Snow crash seems hokey now but it was fun like 10 years ago. yeah see this poster here is wrong. cryptonomicon is good anathem is trash
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naem posted:Snow crash seems hokey now but it was fun like 10 years ago. I read it ten years ago, and maybe if you're dumb but not yet full of cum.
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THS posted:child abuse I think you meant to say attempted murder
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THS posted:ive never been able to get through any cyberpunk novel and ive stomached a song of ice and fire by george r r martin as well as the collected works of ayn rand the only thing you've ever stomached is gallons of cum you clown
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Anthrovore posted:That one dude in neuromancer who could project holograms was pretty cool Riviera was a pretty chill bad guy with a cool name. I liked the part where Molly was walking through his holograms and saw pictures of his childhood which was like feral cannibal children running around some place that had been nuked to poo poo. naem posted:In the neo gritty dark future only programmers can use the Internet even though it is a badly render low polygon video game, also Asian people are spooky and mysterious instead of like normal and all over the place. This seems pretty unfair, in that like the first part of the book is set in Japan, so there are presumably japs all over the place. I don't know if he was the first person to type it or whatever, but I still think the word "sararimen" is pretty funny. Effectronica posted:Snow Crash is bad and people recommending it are committing a minor war crime. I'll see you motherfuckers in the Hague. Actually, all of his novels are really good or at least fun. Except for Anathem. For some reason I was willing to sit through like a four page math discussion in Cryptonomicon and still love the book, but after page 50 of Anathem I just could not bear to read another loving word about clocks. Anyway, Gibson and Stephenson own, the new Shadowrun video games own. I think we can still make cyberpunk work if we really try hard.
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neuromancer is fun because its one of those things where everything that came after aped it so hard it reads like the most cliche thing on the planet see also: i love lucy, aliens
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Cold and Ugly posted:Actually, all of his novels are really good or at least fun. Except for Anathem. For some reason I was willing to sit through like a four page math discussion in Cryptonomicon and still love the book, but after page 50 of Anathem I just could not bear to read another loving word about clocks.
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also i like the gibson storey with keanu reeves and henry rollins
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ilikedirt posted:is pattern recognition any good I liked it a lot, it's probably my favorite Gibson book. Better than any of his sci-fi stuff (although I did like Neuromancer more than the rest of this thread did so maybe I'm wrong).
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I like how he more or less accurately predicted the effect that ubiquitous internet access would have on global commerce even if he got it wrong with the actual form it would take
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darkwing cuck posted:also i like the gibson storey with keanu reeves and henry rollins Was Henry Rollins really in Johnny Mnemonic?
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i heard reading books isn't necessary any more
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i just read tom friedman articles. the world is flat. try and tell me im going to learn anything from some nerd cyperfunk bullshit
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Stoic Commie posted:i heard reading books isn't necessary any more Drugs are too good in the future. Nobody has time for books any more.
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Cold and Ugly posted:Was Henry Rollins really in Johnny Mnemonic? he was spider the doctor dude
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paranoid randroid posted:neuromancer is fun because its one of those things where everything that came after aped it so hard it reads like the most cliche thing on the planet When I saw the Matrix for the very first time, at like 16-17, I was like: I'm having fun right now, just thinking of all the ways in which future culture is going to enjoy leather clothing and rotating freeze frame and edm versions of Dragula.
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darkwing cuck posted:he was spider the doctor dude Dang. I'd forgotten about that. How cheesy that movie was aside, I really wish they had cast someone other than Ice T as the resistance leader guy. That would have helped at least a little.
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all tomorrow's parties is a great book and one of my favs
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Effectronica posted:Snow Crash is bad and people recommending it are committing a minor war crime. I'll see you motherfuckers in the Hague. This is the most loving correct opinion I have ever read. If I ever hear the phrase "bimbo box" spoken in real life I think I would involuntarily tackle and savagely beat the person who said it. Gibson is fairly harmless as a writer.Not great, not horrible, and you can read it without wishing death on the author. Hobohemian fucked around with this message at 03:44 on Aug 19, 2014 |
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i totes expected noted author of nerd wank sci-fi william gibson to be far more rugged
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LOL. I bought and watched and enjoyed the biographical film they made about him, titled "No Maps for These Territories". It opens with Bono reading the first lines of Neuromancer, that "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel" line.
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ya the book was very chill especially the part where it was incomprehensible garbage
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Hobohemian posted:This is the most loving correct opinion I have ever read. If I ever hear the phrase "bimbo box" spoken in real life I think I would involuntarily tackle and savagely beat the person who said it. Nice edit, man. But I think that's sort of a harsh idea to have about a black guy running around with samurai swords.
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Hobohemian posted:This is the most loving correct opinion I have ever read. If I ever hear the phrase "bimbo box" spoken in real life I think I would involuntarily tackle and savagely beat the person who said it. Yeah, but Neuromancer you've got to read. It's a loving seminal work. Don't matter much if you like it or not. Snow Crash is a footnote at best, and poo poo besides. Cake Smashing Boob fucked around with this message at 03:50 on Aug 19, 2014 |
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man if you think that book is chill you read it wrong. cool drugs, yeah, but there's people dying all over the place and a mystery war like 20 years before events (or something like that?). book's p cool, sex scene is laughably embarrassingly bad tho.
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Bread Dragon posted:man if you think that book is chill you read it wrong. cool drugs, yeah, but there's people dying all over the place and a mystery war like 20 years before events (or something like that?). book's p cool, sex scene is laughably embarrassingly bad tho. I don't know man. It was like two paragraphs long and almost totally irrelevant. Kind of weird that it would make it into your two sentence synopsis.
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