Brewer's Book Reviews
Suggestions to fill in those moments we have to read - or listen to it on tape
Tuesday, April 23, 2002
I just read Snow Crash by Neal Stpehenson. I loved it - it has an interesting construct that tied early language to computers. A linguistic twist as it were. And yet it was also just a fast plot that kept me hooked. This insepires me as I felt my imagination and intellect being challenged. I'd almost forgotten that good literature can do this - though this does fringe with junk fiction. It's an all time favorite's of Marc who bought me the twoother books by the author. I look forward to reading them.
Read the Philip Pullman trilogy: The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass. A freind found it to be an adult Harry Potter. I don't quite agree and prefer the child world of Harry Potter. At the end I felt I had been diverted but didn't get much else out of it.
The final review I have is Daughter of Fortune about a woman who makes the voyage from Chile to early San Francisco to find her lover. I was interested due to the ties to early California - I live near some of the settings - being on the Barbary Coast. As can be expected by the author - it was a good read.
But my favorite by far was Snow Crash.
For those of you that know Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, here is an interesting web site. It makes me want to reread this incredible work. http://www.themodernword.com/gr
.: posted by lcanter 9:55 PM
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