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....<div><br></div><div>-DOJP<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danldo@gmail.com">danldo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Daniel Petersen wrote:<br>
> Looking forward to taking a big<br>
> bite out of his oeuvre, but, recommendations notwithstanding, I'm still<br>
> totally puzzled about how best to begin to tackle its voluminous bulk!<br>
<br>
You could do worse than to start at the beginning. _Snow Crash_ is a<br>
very funny book, if you can deal with the kind of humor that names a<br>
book's main character "Hiro Protagonist." Others really like _The<br>
Diamond Age_, b</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">ut it didn't do much for me. I recommend going to the<br>
recent _Anathem_, a dark alternate-world novel.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">--<br>
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes<br>
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