/lit/ - Literature

>>19167388
Snow crash is good, I bet it would have been a lot more impactfull had I read it back when the internet and vr was some newfangled thing in darpa labs. I liked reamde better. His endings are often quite abrupt. Most books have a sort of pasing we all get used to where there is the climax and then kinda coasts down to a nice and gracefull end were you get a chance to bask in the happy about a good thing coming to a conclusion. Neal's pacing is like going 90mph and a deer pops and and he steps on the break but you don't know if you will stop soon enough the end. He get's real but hurt if you ask him about it too.

But I do really like his books. Many authors would take the world building he does for a one off and spin it out to a 10 book series. It's kinda nice to get a good solid book in an interesting well built setting even if you know the end is probably going to be a bit sudden.