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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Neuromancer

I presume you've read snow crash?

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN I presume you've read snow crash?

Yeah. What a load of bollocks.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Yeah. What a load of bollocks.

are you looking for good poetry?

what type.

i may be of some help.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Yeah. What a load of bollocks.

isn't all cyberpunk bollocks? I loved it

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN isn't all cyberpunk bollocks? I loved it

Granted it's pretty funny, and actually had me laughing out loud in a couple of places. But as a story it's absolute amateurism. All that endless tedious info-dumping about Sumerian mythology with absolutely no attempt to integrate it into the narrative, and then at the end what's it all for? After waiting for about 400 pages to find out what the fuck is going in, it turns out it's nothing more than a sub-Bond villain "use mind control to take over the world" scheme which he's crudely attempted to force into some grand link with computer science and linguistics, all of which is complete nonsense. And after 400 fucking pages of trying to figure out what devious web Stephenson must be weaving that will tie together all this bullshit, it turns out it just descends into a crap cartoon action movie complete with deus ex machina resolution.

On a higher level, the whole book is just a glorified self-congratulatory handjob to all the coders and computer mega-geeks. It's all there in that whole passage where Hiro sits up in Da5id's house and Stephenson waxes lyrical about the mundanity of suburban America and how cool and exciting young hackers like Hiro are. What an edgy, badass tribe the code monkeys of 1993 truly were. Hiro Protagonist is a walking amalgamation of geek fantasy, right down to the samurai swords. He's exactly as lethal, handsome, well connected and heroic in the real world as in the Metaverse, thus rendering the latter completely irrelevant in dramatic terms. He has no weaknesses, he encounters no real setbacks, he can acquire whatever he wants and kill anyone he wants whenever the plot demands it. In a book that pokes satirical fun at every single facet of society going, Stephenson hasn't even got one word of self-deprecation for his champion geeks.

I could go on and on. Neuromancer is an actual piece of literature, and a groundbreaking and supremely stylish one at that. Snow Crash is, by comparison, mere fan service.

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> Rough & Ready [Modern Trance]

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Originally posted by Silky Johnson Quite a few TAs have fucked each other. Some TAs have fucked more TAs than others. Lol. edit: none of them post here anymore though.

A bunch of us are held together by more than this forum; many of us are Eskimo brothers.

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I've only had my dick inside maybe 1 or 2 ta's...maybe 3

when you are ta's godfather it does come with some perks

me and jay are eskimo brothers

circle jerks dont count boys.

sorry

neither does getting nutted on in a circle jerk, numbers

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Granted it's pretty funny, and actually had me laughing out loud in a couple of places. But as a story it's absolute amateurism. All that endless tedious info-dumping about Sumerian mythology with absolutely no attempt to integrate it into the narrative, and then at the end what's it all for? After waiting for about 400 pages to find out what the fuck is going in, it turns out it's nothing more than a sub-Bond villain "use mind control to take over the world" scheme which he's crudely attempted to force into some grand link with computer science and linguistics, all of which is complete nonsense. And after 400 fucking pages of trying to figure out what devious web Stephenson must be weaving that will tie together all this bullshit, it turns out it just descends into a crap cartoon action movie complete with deus ex machina resolution. On a higher level, the whole book is just a glorified self-congratulatory handjob to all the coders and computer mega-geeks. It's all there in that whole passage where Hiro sits up in Da5id's house and Stephenson waxes lyrical about the mundanity of suburban America and how cool and exciting young hackers like Hiro are. What an edgy, badass tribe the code monkeys of 1993 truly were. Hiro Protagonist is a walking amalgamation of geek fantasy, right down to the samurai swords. He's exactly as lethal, handsome, well connected and heroic in the real world as in the Metaverse, thus rendering the latter completely irrelevant in dramatic terms. He has no weaknesses, he encounters no real setbacks, he can acquire whatever he wants and kill anyone he wants whenever the plot demands it. In a book that pokes satirical fun at every single facet of society going, Stephenson hasn't even got one word of self-deprecation for his champion geeks. I could go on and on. Neuromancer is an actual piece of literature, and a groundbreaking and supremely stylish one at that. Snow Crash is, by comparison, mere fan service.

well admittedly i did read it as a teenager, so maybe my recollections are shit or maybe my taste is just bad . but i liked the libertarian universe and the fact that the snow crash aligned with a game i was playing at the time that used a similar concept. but thanks for your review, that's what i was after

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applying real life experience to real life is unpractical? ...did i read that correctly?

A surgeon should not operate if he has not gone through the same pathology, astrophysicists should not talk about black-holes and other cosmological phenomena because said person has not experienced it.

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why does anyone think that adding chemical substances that are made in an industrial factory and enclosed in small capsules is really a proper way or effective way of treating anything? there are natural cures for every disease. natural medicine has been practiced and has worked for thousands of years. pills are used to control and they are used for money. and pills are notorious for causing diseases, symptoms which are worse then the original disease or symptom. studies which support pills are funded by the companies which make money off of pills. your science is corrupt, full of assumptions, and causes vast limitations.

I won't even answer this, since it's an ancient argument which doesn't really lead anywhere.


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