Is he any good? I am put off by Snow Crash mainly because of

>>9756648
you dropped a book because of a joke the author put in? wow, you must be fun at parties.

meh. Stephenson is pretty good, when he's not talking down to the audience ("Okay, you're all stupid, but you need to understand what Modulo means in maths.. so, you've got a bicycle with a damaged chain...")

Seveneves was a pretty good concept, but as a lot of people point out, it ended so suddenly that we're all expecting a sequel, and there hasn't been yet.

If i ever meet someone who compares "Cryptonomicon" to "Gravity's Rainbow" just because they both take place during the second world war and they both have at least one equation, i may have to kill them.

>>9756648
I dropped Cryptonomicon at "inside you". Fuck that gay shit (no pun intended).

I liked him when i was a teenager, but unfortunately i can't get into it anymore; unfortunate because they were very fun books.

The ones i read were
- 1 part fantastic atmosphere or setting.
- 6 parts overwhelming the reader with very boring technical and/or mundane infodumps or extremely long discussions between characters.
- 1 part technical and/or mundane infodumps or extremely long discussions between characters which were interesting, and sometimes fantastically atmospheric.

Stephenson also has a taste for playful writing, like the repetition in this post, or like "Hiro Protagonist", which will make you roll your eyes a lot. I don't think he does it too much whenever the plot kicks in.

When you get to the skater/crips concert you're probably going to hate the book and really want to put it down, but the half worth reading lies beyond this point.

>>9758692
>Stephenson also has a taste for playful writing


you must really hate Pynchon.

>>9756648
Neil's pretty talented, but he tends to crawl up his own ass a lot and sucks at pacing. He's made betters books than Snow Crash tho SC is pretty accessible compared to a lot of his better stuff