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kleinbl00 · 3617 days ago · link · · parent · post: 'bl00's Reviews #7: "The Name of the Rose" by Umberto Eco
Anathem was the book that convinced me Neal Stephenson lucked out on Snow Crash and is, by all respects, a terrible author. Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folx.
briandmyers · 3614 days ago · link ·
I kinda liked "Diamond Age", but as usual, he didn't do that great a job wrapping it all up at the end. Like "Snow Crash", the concepts in that book stuck with me, though - and it's also short enough to not be too mind-numbing by the time you reach the end.
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coffeesp00ns · 3617 days ago · link ·
To be fair, it's pretty easy to tear Tolkien a new asshole. He was a linguistic genius, and he created a world, history and creation story in full technicolour, but he wasn't very good at talking about it. I think if someone else had taken his source material and written LOTR it would actually be a much better book.