tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8946730821757640263.post851593368012705940..comments2023-03-02T00:49:23.385-08:00Comments on Danna Staaf - Author: Now I want to write eco-thrillersDanna Staafhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10187299641549075487noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8946730821757640263.post-47329445127593487342010-11-24T14:37:36.000-08:002010-11-24T14:37:36.000-08:00I think the profanity and recreational drug use we...I think the profanity and recreational drug use were rather realistic for that town.Thanks for the post!<br>christian louboutin boutiquehttp://www.manoloblahnikdirect.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8946730821757640263.post-26860960599492851702010-10-15T02:35:35.000-07:002010-10-15T02:35:35.000-07:00d) Yay to all of the above! And, er, I kind of tho...d) Yay to all of the above! And, er, I kind of thought I did mention it at some point or another. Glad you found it on your own.<br>I actually rather enjoyed Cryptonomicon. It's just so long and so choppy that I got frustrated looking for the bit I remembered about diving.<br>Dannanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8946730821757640263.post-46593482206034834672010-10-13T10:19:37.000-07:002010-10-13T10:19:37.000-07:00Oh and--- good lord don't read Cryptonomicon. ...Oh and--- good lord don't read Cryptonomicon. It's his worst book. You might like Anathem, although there's more technology than chemistry or biology, so maybe not. Maybe stick with Zodiac.<br>Rusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8946730821757640263.post-14219442285697836142010-10-13T10:17:39.000-07:002010-10-13T10:17:39.000-07:00a) Yay! You liked it!b) I told you.c) How dare yo...a) Yay! You liked it!<br>b) I told you.<br>c) How dare you have a blog and not tell me about it. Subscribed now.<br>Rushttp://www.devtools.org/mt/rusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8946730821757640263.post-30183235647015207942010-09-29T05:16:45.000-07:002010-09-29T05:16:45.000-07:00I never suspected it was unrealistic, just not to ...I never suspected it was <i>unrealistic</i>, just not to my taste. =) I enjoyed Sangamon's law too, although I found it amusing that he took several occasions to harp on heavy metal pollution without ever realizing how simple a molecule of lead or cadmium is. Small things can be toxic too.<br>Guh. I just spent a few minutes with Cryptonomicon, trying to find the bits about diving, before I got fed up. Anyway, from what I can remember, it's a sound theory. I like it.<br>Dannanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8946730821757640263.post-13083656690372993792010-09-28T16:13:58.000-07:002010-09-28T16:13:58.000-07:00From what I remember of the diving sections of Cry...From what I remember of the diving sections of Cryptonomicon, it wouldn't be far-fetched to think someone else had a similar gripe with Zodiac and Stephenson made it up to them in the later book<br>Charles Millerhttp://fishbowl.pastiche.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8946730821757640263.post-18262897376687537882010-09-28T08:04:57.000-07:002010-09-28T08:04:57.000-07:00Yay! Zodiac is my favorite of his books as well. ...Yay! Zodiac is my favorite of his books as well. I read it first before I moved to Boston, and it was kind of cool finding out that a lot of the places in the book really do (or did) exist. His scene about crossing a busy intersection in Boston on a bicycle was spot on. I also thought the profanity and recreational drug use were rather realistic for that town (and I love Sangomon's law about molecule sizes with regard to drug use), but maybe I was just hanging out with the wrong kids in college.<br>Terrynoreply@blogger.com