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Dhh05594 t1_jd96ijj wrote

Reply to comment by fn0000rd in I picked up Wool, and couldn’t put it down. by fn0000rd

Wool is a good way to detox Stephenson.

I know people love his work but I hate it. He comes across to me as someone who thinks he's smarter than everyone else and if you disagree with him, you are an idiot. His books are so boring and only seem to pick up at the end because the first 3/4 of the book is so boring that anything is better.

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fn0000rd OP t1_jd9knc9 wrote

I see how you could feel that way, but he's written 2 of my favorite books ever, Anathem and Cryptonomicon.

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zephyr220 t1_jdd8e7s wrote

Definitely a polarizing author. I feel like he knows he is nerdier than everyone else, though. Not intellectually superior. Like he researches the crap out of things to write niche books for himself and other semi-autistic weirdos that would bore the normies.

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