THe third LOTR is the really boring one, i was fine up till then but damn if i read something to the effect of "...terrain was boring...he'd never felt so lonely in his life...." i was going to use the damn thing for archery practice...
Diamond age was fantastic, remarkably different to cryptonomicon, the style seemed closer to Gibson, certainly drew me in, some facinating concepts and ideas. Stepherson has a certain....raw? way of writing that really drags me in, i only discovered his books recently but damn, they're good. I haven't managed to track down a copy of Zodiac yet, working on it at the moment (though most of my waking hours involved one screen or another and page after page of code
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