(urth) instant new fan

Daniel Petersen danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com
Mon Dec 19 11:31:20 PST 2011


Thanks, Dan'l.  I'm usually the type that at least tries to start at the
beginning and slog my way through chronologically.  We'll see....

-DOJP

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com>wrote:

> Daniel Petersen wrote:
> > Looking forward to taking a big
> > bite out of his oeuvre, but, recommendations notwithstanding, I'm still
> > totally puzzled about how best to begin to tackle its voluminous bulk!
>
> You could do worse than to start at the beginning. _Snow Crash_ is a
> very funny book, if you can deal with the kind of humor that names a
> book's main character "Hiro Protagonist." Others really like _The
> Diamond Age_, b

ut it didn't do much for me. I recommend going to the
> recent _Anathem_, a dark alternate-world novel.
> --
> Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
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