It's one of my favorite passages from all his books

It's not a memorable book, it's good but it'll never be a classic

I think it's too early to make that call. I think it stands the test of time but not Asimov or Heinlein.

Sorry to interrupt, but back on the topic of authorial intent, my conscience gets a bit troubled when I see an amazing film like, say *Come and See,* which is a Russian film about a young boy who tries to ride out WW2 and ends up fighting for the Motherland to protect his countrymen from the Nazis. The execution of that film is apolitical, but is it moral to like a film that may be indirectly promoting communism?

I don't even consider it cypunk.

I think snow crash is cypunk and is actually going to be a classic. Cryptonomicon not so much.

I think it's best classification is historical fiction. Cryptonomicon.

I would also add in SevenEves but that's because it's his most recent work.

Just because a film or piece of literature is made in a time period and promotes certian ideas doesn't make it any better or worse. One of my favorite things about Soviet films is how they still speak to the human condition dispute them being propoganda

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The premise of 7eves is the boom blows up and the atmosphere is going to be in fire. How is humanity going to survive.

It's not bad. The problem of the book is it's first half is like The Martian on steroids, and the second half is unfinished.

I'm glad to hear someone else feels the same way; this is the movie I referred to, by the way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDq9fL--Avw

I'm reading Dostoyevsky slowly but surely in Russian.

It's super rough

Which one?

Crime and Punnishment is first up

Next is the Brothers, after that it'll probably be either notes from. Underground or the idiot

I think that's an exaggeration, but I'll see.

It may be bad Dostoyevsky. But it's still Dostoyevsky.

I've heard that most consider The Idiot his weakest, but that it's still very good. Although I haven't heard anything about Notes.

I'm only familair with C & P and Brothers, myself, and it's been too long.

It's also classic Russian literature.

That shit is always at minimum 500 pages

I'm much more familiar with Russian film than literature, myself, but I'd like to start. Have you read any Chekov?

Bits and pieces.

I've read cherry tree? Or is it cherry orchard

Good play.

I read a bit of Uncle Vanya, but life sidetracked me.

I've recently discovered Peter Hamilton.

And by God does he know how to write.

If you have the time to read check out Pandora's Star.

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Wrote on my to-do list, thanks! I used to do a lot of reading, but I've gotten behind due to school. Recently I've started making reviews for games and films on HonestGamers and Letterboxd, respectively, and since learning more about each medium heightens my appreciation for the other, I'm hoping the same will prove true for books I need to read.

He's like a better Kim Stanley Robenson. Or maybe a sci-fi George R. R. Martin.

Try out audio books at 1.5 to 2.5x speed. They make reading a lot more accessible

Good idea! I'm a quick reader, but I need to multitask.

I can't make an accurate comparison to Martin since I haven't read his books yet.

But from I can tell. Long plot arks, many characters, surprising sub plots, complex characters, long.

I think it's a pretty good fit.

Once I joined a library reading contest and read 5000 pages of political science and other nonfiction in a single summer, but I never placed. Then the next year I caught on, blazed through 21,000 pages of cahmix, and won an iPad Mini. I've never read another comic book since then, out of spite (and standards, tbh).