This guy can really write an amazing sentence or fifty. So much smart n snappy dialogue that I find myself skimming over it sometimes in the hope of getting to a pocket of plot.

Now there are several pretty major subplots intertwining til ya don’t know which is imperative and I usually like that, but there’s some kind of cheese in the mix here thats not working for my palette. It gets boring-ish fairly regularly but he’s just such a great thinker and writer of amazing sentences that I’m definitely sticking it out til the end. I’m halfway thru now.

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Agatha Christie on posh English steroids. Um, Wry. Thirteen pages in and it’s awesome. Apparently I’m aquiring a talent hfor pulling gems off of shelves of shit. Phew, cuz this flight home is ten hours 38 minutes.

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Ready Player One. Holyfrigginmole’. The most fun you can have alone with your clothes on. Uber nerd shit taken to a new level. Or maybe to its logical conclusion.

It’s like he wrote a sci fi novel for the sole purpose of name checking the zillion things (video games, sci fi books/80s movies etc) he loves the most. And he ended up being really really good at it.

Get this book.

And by the way I love that he name checks Richard K Morgan in the same breath as William Gibson, Neil Stephenson and JRR Tolkein. Hellzyes.

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