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Re:Snow Crash movie to be written and directed by Joe Cornish by liamondrop on Friday June 15, 2012 @12:15PM (#4117203)
What you are portraying as negatives (meandering detours into entirely unnecessary, but hilarious, trivia; absurdly unlikely plot scenarios [since when is anything about Snowcrash a likely scenario?]; etc.) are probably what loom as the largest selling points for fans of Stephenson's work from Cryptonomicon onward. I don't think we buy the books for the "plausability" factor.

Also, the books hardly take themselves seriously.

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Re:Snow Crash movie to be written and directed by Joe Cornish by waterlesscloud on Friday June 15, 2012 @12:48PM (#4117381)
The Baroque Trilogy literally changed how I see the way the world works. Those endless detours are worth quite a lot.
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Re:Snow Crash movie to be written and directed by Joe Cornish by dredmorbius on Monday June 18, 2012 @12:34AM (#4124997)
The best textbook on modern banking and finance I've ever read.

Which, I realize, is a really damning endorsement of a novel, but I honestly found it fascinating. Once I chewed through enough (roughly half) of the first book to the point that it was engaging.

And yes, its exposition was itself an exploration of the baroque.

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Re:Snow Crash movie to be written and directed by Joe Cornish by planetguy on Friday June 15, 2012 @01:14PM (#4117503)
Some of them are. Some of them are truly pointless. Neal Stephenson apparently had a giant map of 18th century London on the wall of the room where he wrote it, and as such apparently feels compelled, on certain occasions when a character goes from one place to another, to name every street he passes on the way. That's not atmospheric or interesting, it's just filler.
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Re:Snow Crash movie to be written and directed by Joe Cornish by excuse-me on Friday June 15, 2012 @01:30PM (#4117608)
The point of Baroque architecture and music is to have too much detail at every level to take in - presumably he was trying the same thing in writing.
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