i finally finished neal stephenson's quicksilver last night. it's hard to really discuss coherently a book that it's taken me three months to read, but i'll try, i guess. the first time i read cryptonomicon, i actually found myself skipping ahead from some slow parts. i actually enjoyed that one considerably more the second time through. i didn't skip ahead through any parts of quicksilver, though. you can draw one of two conclusions from that. either that i liked it better, or that it was composed entirely of slow parts. the latter is closer to the truth. but that's not to say that's a bad thing. i enjoyed it, actually, quite a lot. i liken it to a double quarter pounder at mcdonald's to some extent. it's tasty and satisfying but in the end just way the hell too much. at least the first time around. but in general, it is kind of an interesting perspective on the events in question, and it's damned amusing at times. sometimes it's too clever for its own good, and it does indeed take a while to get off the ground, but in general, it's enjoyable. i do plan on reading it again before passing final judgment. but not for a while. after all, there's another one coming in april... in the meantime, though, i need to read some pulpy trash...
u stupid mofos u dont love the llamas.all you guys do is talk about stupid things not like the red llama faction who actually love the llamas and go on street crimes for the llamas.stop youre bitching and love the llamas.
Nikolai Popovich of the rssr