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Yeah, but Pynchon's novel isn't something everyone goes out and buy - Tartt's book, on the other hand, was all over the news a few years back, and everybody went and bought it.

Gaiman. Apparently he's written a new novel, called Anansi Boys. >>Amazon Page<< >>Amazon Reviews Page<< I've read the first review, and I must say, it hugely appeals to me. Oh, and on a sidenote, here's an interview with Mr. Gaiman, together with Joss Whedon (of Buffy and Firefly fame)...

You have a point. I hadn't thought of music. Though, I'd go for books/literature as my most personal form of media. Cheers

Really? Can books, by themselves, be evil? Or can people's interpretations of them be evil (or at the very least misguided)? I personally don't think books can be anything; good nor bad. It's accumulation of words, hundreds of thousands of words, and it's what we do with those sequences of...

And Jemima and Mari, Mari's point about embelleshing a book in your mind may be a very good one - I do find myself sometimes doing that with films, so why not with books also? I think you may be onto something here. Jemima, I've bungee jumped 4 times now, and each and every time I loved...

No no no no, no sneak attack or anything - I just wanted to point out that the quality of the writing is probably not the cause, because that's quite good. I mentioned Dan Brown (who I have read and liked) because that was the first name to pop into my head when I wanted to name someone from who...

Not the topic at hand, but an interesting question. I think it's because the bulk of the active members is from an English speaking country, and the ones that aren't, myself included, read books in English, as opposed to books in their own language. I could start a thread on a Dutch book I've...

End of discussion, then? Over to Darren.

I don't want to exclusively make this about the example I used, I was really inquiring about the phenomenon, but I must react to this - this is Jose Saramago we're talking about, and not Dan Brown or the likes. The author's artistry (or lack thereof, as you are perhaps implying) doesn't seem to...

My point is, just because one, or two, or hell, even three people think it, doesn't make it so. However sharp they are. If three people's opinions create reality, then hell, I'm taking two buds to the bank tomorrow. Lets ditch the entire count, how's that?

That's probably the case with the first example, Brin's Kil'n People, but most certainly not with the second. I read Blindness very closely the first time round, because I was dealing with a nobel prize winner - I didn't want to miss any of the literary brilliance he might throw at me, and it...

That's just it, you can't. All you can do is pull up the same old quotes and spread your conspiracy theories. All you can do is pull up the same old quotes and attach to them a meaning you happen to think they have. An opinion to which, incidentally, you are entitled. But come on, do you...

I've been on a rereading binge this year; at least 3/4 of what I've read this year, I read for a second time. And something struck me as funny. First impressions are, at least for me, it seems, not always 100% correct. While my first impressions of the bulk of the books I reread this year...

Jesus fucking christ, people! How the hell does a simple suggestion about altering the system governing the postcount turn into a debate (if that) regarding elitism, snobbery, segregation, hidden agenda's, secret undercurrents. I mean, fucking hell, racism has been mentioned? Think...

Issue, issue, issue. I was just wondering why you didn't like Quicksilver while you did (somewhat) like Cryptonomicon, while they are in some degrees linked. I wondered if, perhaps, despite the links, we're talking two utterly different books here.

Well, The Baroque Cycle is a prequel to Cryptonomicon, featuring the forefathers of the main characters from Cryptonomicon. I haven't read them myself, yet, so I can't comment on how much overlap (for lack of a better word) there actually is, but there most certainly is a link. That said...

This in spite of the fact that it is in many ways linked to Cryptonomicon?

A word of warning - as far as I know, Snow Crash and The Diamond Age are entirely different from Cryptonomicon, and it's historical prequels The Baroque Cycle.

As is The Diamond Age, which I bought yesterday, and, naturally, haven't read yet. Cheers

Revivin', revivin', gotta keep revivin'! I recently found The Diamond Age for a reasonable preice, so I picked it up. I read Snow Crach quite some time ago, and it truly was a rollercoaster of a book. Nothing extraordinarily good, but very inventive. The loose ends could have been handled...