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Loading... In the Beginning...was the Command Line... cyberpunk tradition and is worth reading for that alone.
Like avaland #93, I read and enjoyed The Diamond Age and In the Beginning ... was the Command Line. I also liked Cryptonomicon, though the ratio of infodump to story was beginning to increase to dangerous levels. Quicksilver ... ... your Stephenson comments intrigue me. The only Stephenson I've read is The Diamond Age and his small nonfiction book, In the Beginning was the Command Line (it's probably the last book anyone would imagine I would read, but I did love his comparing operating systems to cars). ... Torturer for the group read.
Snowcrash... I always thought it was over-rated. But then I've also read Stephenson's In the Beginning... was the Command Line, which is just wrong. Having said that, I did enjoy The Diamond Age and Cryptonomicon, but I gave up on the Baroque Cycle after ... #4 - Eh, the only book by Stephenson that I actively disliked was In the beginning... was the command line ;-) ... all of the concepts I've adored... but the writing... oh gods, the writing! YUUUUUUCK.
(Ok, one caveat -- I liked In the beginning... was the command line by Stephenson.)
I hated Snow Crash, Neuromancer, Market Forces, and Glasshouse... ugh ugh ugh... I would include Bruce St ... ... the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
How Much For Just the Planet? by John M. Ford
I Was a Rat! by Philip Pullman
In the Beginning Was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson
Lady Slings the Booze by Spider Robinson
The Law Is For All by Aleister Crowley
Nirvana Bites by Debi Alper ... ... to be left alone. The most committed Taliban members are from outside Afghanistan.
* A lot of Afghan policeman are gay.
In the beginning . . . was the command line by Neal Stephenson
An entertaining rant about computer operating systems.
Neal Stephenson's Baroque Trilogy set in the 17th C ... ... either, along with not being scientists
Neal Stephenson was a computer scientist of sorts at Snow Crash time e.g. In the Beginning Was the Command Line, which, of course, is a different thing, and not a scientist in the sense being discussed.
Most people aren't scientists, so most ...
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