The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book)
2 journalers for this copy...
Very intriguing and I got to learn what cyberpunk means!
Firstly, this has a way different cover, which I think is less pretty, although it is also less "book of the month," so not all bad.
This is definitely NOT what I normally read. I loves me the fantasy, but sci fi just ends up boring the heck out of me. It's aliens in space...*yawn* let's spend more time describing machinery and computer parts *snore* While some of my best friends are engineers, I just don't care. That being said, this definitely held my interest and I only found myself skimming a few parts. It is actually a very difficult to skim book...because it is so dense, every sentence is important, so you kind of have to at least topically scan all the machinery descriptions to make sure you don't miss anything.
Very intriguing plot and fascinating future world full of a collection of interesting and fully developed characters. I liked that there were so many many characters (some who only showed up for one chapter) but that they all seemed well rounded and completely with purpose in the novel.
My sister only liked the first half, but I did like the entire thing (although I didn't expect to). I will say that the whole bit with the drummers was BORING AS HELL and a bit of let down. But I liked pretty much everything else.
I have one major stylistic critique, however. The author doesn't have traditional chapters...instead there are different vignettes strung together. the start of each vignette has one of those descriptive headings (for example: "judge Fang goes for a dinner cruise with a Mandarin; they visit a mysterious ship; a startling discover; a trap is sprung." in other novels that have used these chapter headings it has never bothered me (although i sometimes have chosen to ignore them so as to avoid any spoilers, ya know?) but because there are so so many of these (sometimes one every other page or two, in a 500 page novel) they quickly became VERY VERY annoying, so I definitely skipped them.
Thanks friend and sister for recommending I read this. Good stuff.
This is definitely NOT what I normally read. I loves me the fantasy, but sci fi just ends up boring the heck out of me. It's aliens in space...*yawn* let's spend more time describing machinery and computer parts *snore* While some of my best friends are engineers, I just don't care. That being said, this definitely held my interest and I only found myself skimming a few parts. It is actually a very difficult to skim book...because it is so dense, every sentence is important, so you kind of have to at least topically scan all the machinery descriptions to make sure you don't miss anything.
Very intriguing plot and fascinating future world full of a collection of interesting and fully developed characters. I liked that there were so many many characters (some who only showed up for one chapter) but that they all seemed well rounded and completely with purpose in the novel.
My sister only liked the first half, but I did like the entire thing (although I didn't expect to). I will say that the whole bit with the drummers was BORING AS HELL and a bit of let down. But I liked pretty much everything else.
I have one major stylistic critique, however. The author doesn't have traditional chapters...instead there are different vignettes strung together. the start of each vignette has one of those descriptive headings (for example: "judge Fang goes for a dinner cruise with a Mandarin; they visit a mysterious ship; a startling discover; a trap is sprung." in other novels that have used these chapter headings it has never bothered me (although i sometimes have chosen to ignore them so as to avoid any spoilers, ya know?) but because there are so so many of these (sometimes one every other page or two, in a 500 page novel) they quickly became VERY VERY annoying, so I definitely skipped them.
Thanks friend and sister for recommending I read this. Good stuff.
