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Anonymous Sun May 25 19:13:42 2014 No.4933658 [DELETED]

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Why can't cyberpunk authors write endings?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 25 19:15:17 2014 No.4933661 >>4933658 >Why can't cyberpunk authors write?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 25 19:19:54 2014 No.4933678 >>4933661 >Why can't I stop having shit taste?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 25 19:20:51 2014 No.4933681 >>4933678 Love cyberpunk, dislike the writers. Aside from a few like Gibson their writings are usually just bad.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 25 19:20:51 2014 No.4933682 >>4933658 >Why can't cyberpunk authors?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 25 19:21:15 2014 No.4933686 >>4933678 >not liking cyberpunk >shit taste Pick one.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 25 19:30:34 2014 No.4933712 >>4933658 Some cyberpunk authors can write endings, just happen that Stephenson can't.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 25 19:34:09 2014 No.4933717 File: 46 KB, 413x673, starfish.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] What's your favorite cyberpunk?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 25 19:36:14 2014 No.4933724 >>4933717 >implying anything other than Neuromancer is a valid answer

>>	Anonymous Sun May 25 19:38:06 2014 No.4933729 >>4933724 I have yet to read it, but since it seems to be the cyberbible I intend to.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 25 22:15:14 2014 No.4934293 >>4933712 Gibson can't either though.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 25 22:53:46 2014 No.4934445 Why is the babylonian ur-language considered bad in Snow Crash? Wouldn't life be better if we all spoke the same language and understood each other perfectly and could directly influence each other's consciousness with nothing but words?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 25 23:39:16 2014 No.4934621 That ending was dumb. Raven had a fucking hydrogen bomb wired to his EKG. So he didn't die, or what?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 26 04:34:49 2014 No.4935290 >>4933658 What ending would have satisfied you then, Princess?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 26 04:40:42 2014 No.4935305 Can anyone write endings?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 26 04:49:12 2014 No.4935337 >>4935305 The ending of 1984 was perfect. It felt like the entire book was aiming to that final four-worded sentence and it's sheer humble simplicity about the destruction of a man leaves you almost dumbfounded.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 26 04:58:11 2014 No.4935366 >>4934445 Wasn't that Cryptonomicon?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 26 05:08:21 2014 No.4935404 >>4935366 no, it's Snow Crash alright. It's a moot point though, because the entire speech virus idea is pants on head retarded, so thinking about it is not fruitful.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 26 15:42:02 2014 No.4937087 >>4935404 Why do you think that? I thought the idea of protolanguage being a lower level part of the brain was pretty cool. Also "If you look into the eye you see a terminal of the brain"

>>	Anonymous Mon May 26 15:49:12 2014 No.4937109 >>4934445 it wasn't so much bad as it was being used as a weapon against hackers and a brainwashing tool against the unwashed masses.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 26 15:51:30 2014 No.4937115 >>4933658 Because you can't write a proper ending for something that never ends.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 26 15:52:31 2014 No.4937118 >>4934445 >could directly influence each other's consciousness with nothing but words thats the bad thing