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[–] UncleOb@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Despite loving Neuromancer and a lot of cyberpunk literature I couldn't really get into Snow Crash. It's too ironic and over the top for my taste. I did love Anathem though, it's probably one of my favorite books! Would you say I'd enjoy Diamond Age?

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[–] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I preferred Anathem over Snow Crash but they're very different, for instance Anathem has a very slow start. I thought the Sprawl sequence (Neuromancer etc) got more and more like Snow Crash with each book.

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[–] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

I loved Anathem, and the fact that it takes 300 pages before anything happens is wonderful. It's been 15 years or so since I read it once and I still remember most of it; while I read Diamond Age twice but don't have much that got retained over a decade later

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[–] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Oh absolutely. I was kinda disappointed when it turned into a relatively standard action adventure near the end. I was hoping for a couple hundred more pages of slice-of-math-life.

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[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Cyberpunk as a genre is generally self aware that it's a ridiculous noir pastiche and leans into it for camp value even early on.

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[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Snow Crash makes more sense when you realize it was written to be a comic book. The conceits of comics don't translate to a novel unless fully re written.