I’d just like you to know that I really tried. I got five hundred something pages into Quicksilver and the first three hundred went off like a shot! Good, fun stuff, cutting up dogs for horrid experiments and whatnot, then the King of the Vagabonds came in and my reading ground to a halt. I’ll have to tackle you on my own dime rather than the company dollar, Neal Stephenson, because I feel like I’m getting nowhere fast.
In other approved activities, be sure and see Forgetting Sarah Marshall this weekend. It’s pretty funny, even if you don’t want to see Jason Segel’s penis. (which you do get to see … several times.)
Yeah, a simultaneous release for a movie? I didn’t see it coming either!
I thought Quicksilver, as a whole, was extremely dry. This is why I was somewhat surprised that you got through the initial portion so quickly. I did think that once Jack and Eliza show up, things got a little interesting, but still rather dry.
Given your reactions to Cryptonomicon and Quicksilver so far, I’d be interested to see how you react to The Confusion. I rather enjoyed it, but it’s also a book that can be a little frustrating because Stephenson will jump through periods of time and leave it up to you to figure out what happened in the interim through contextual clues. He’s also jumping around a lot more between two different stories. I’m guessing this will annoy you, but who knows;P)