(urth) difference engine

Jeff Eoff jeffeoff at gmail.com
Tue May 13 17:03:26 PDT 2008


I enjoyed The Difference Engine, though it's been years since I read 
it.  It wasn't amazing, but it was by no means a regrettable read.  I 
recall the setting and atmosphere being stronger than the plot or the 
characters.

-Jeff Eoff

Stuart Hamm wrote:
> Hmm...should I go back and re-read it?
> I am a huge W Gibson fan...my 2nd CD was "Kings of Sleep",,,but I 
> really didn't like DE and read a book by the co-author (Islands in the 
> Net ??) and thought it was, as Roddy Doyle says.."A Gob of Shite"
> Would really recommend "Pattern Recognition" by WG and lots of early 
> Paul Auster..not exactly sci-fi...but there are some similarities with GW
> "New York Trilogy"
> "The Music of Chance"
> "Leviathan"..about the uni bomber
> "Timbuktu"..from a canine point of view..
>
> Anyone else read them??
>
>
> Stuart Hamm
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