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I am SO proud of Phil Hughes. So, so very proud. I knew you could do it!! I had faith in you!! All those scoreless innings!!! And, you had lots of nice offensive support, too. That's what I'm talking about. I'm hoping that "Firewater" Chamberlain will get his act together tonight and we can show the world that home grown Yankee talent is the best there is.

In other news, I got an annoying work problem out of the way nice and early. This is, of course, after I got ELBOWED IN THE FACE on my way off the train this morning. It was an accident, not on purpose, and the woman looked genuinely horrified, but still, ow. My browbone is still sore.

I'm reading the new Dresden Files book Turn Coat (a birthday gift from teany & selftoken - THANK YOUU!!!). That's been really holding my interest better than Neal "Off the Rails" Stephenson's The Diamond Age. I don't get it. Snow Crash was SO brilliant, and it just feels like he's so busy playing with his proto-steampunk tropes that he has no concept of plot pacing. And don't get me wrong, the steampunk stuff is fun, but I'm still not drawn in. J claims there's a payoff, I may try to get through it after Dresden.

HIMYM and Gossip Girl were made of win this week, too.

Comments

[lulu-girl.livejournal.com]

I too loved Snow Crash. I have The Diamond Age somewhere in a pile at home, never got around to it. I'm kinda afraid...I don't want it to be icky.

[warmage.livejournal.com]

I just finished Grave Peril by virtue of having the good fortune to have come across the Wizard for Hire three-fer in my local dusty secondhand bookshop.

Talk about post-librum depression... I've got to go scare up the fourth one, stat.

[firynze.livejournal.com]

Stephenson is...well, schizophrenic, as far as I'm concerned. Snow Crash feels nothing like Diamond Age, which feels nothing like Cryptonomicon, which segued into the Baroque Trilogy which I totally couldn't read, and I haven't tried Anathem yet but I suspect it's going to be striking in another direction entirely.

I loved Diamond Age, but for its own crazy, disjointed, 18,000-narrative-threads self, rather than for being anything like Snow Crash. Of course, it might help that I read Diamond Age first...

[lemurtanis.livejournal.com]

I could make my normal Stephenson rant, in which I lament his inability to finish a damn book, his tendency to write multi-thousand page works that are incredibly boring for the first several hundred pages, etc etc.

But that wouldn't be helpful. :)