The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book)

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The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book)

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Pros

He uses a broad pallet in his writing that shows deep skill as a writer along with artistic flourishes that send me regularly to the dictionary to learn about some arcane word. Intellectually, this book asks a lot of you. But i am wowed by his reflect... Read More

A young lady's illustrated primer is an illustrated guide to etiquette for young ladies. The book is more than an etiquette book; it is something of a guardian angel, a tutor in everything one can imagine and a nursemaid. It gives you a glimpse of bri... Read More

This story is post-cyberpunk science fiction, heavy on technology, especially nanotechnology. The technological exploration revolves around two different philosophies.

Cons

The fist uprising and the mouse army all on the loose with none of this supposedly god-like nanotech doing a thing about it. The plot's heavy reliance on nano-technology is akin to the use of magic, that's why in fantasy novels and fairy tales. I'm no... Read More

The hacker protagonist is no longer a hero but more an opportunistic meddler. Stephenson frequently seems like he's completely uninterested in telling a good or even readable story. Neal stephenson not.

The kindle edition of the book is poorly put together. It appears that someone scanned in the original book and used optical character recognition software to get the electronic copy. They print the diamond age at the top of every page, which really s... Read More

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Quality

Amazing world building and just all around amazing book

The amount of world building and character development in this book was insane and fun to discover

This book has such a slow start that when i started it a few years ago i put it down after getting maybe 60 pages in

A prodigious feat of science fiction extrapolation that left me feeling like i could almost but not quite fit together all the pieces

Price

I hope we do get to a point where printing diamonds is cheaper than window glass

Competitiveness

His tendency to infodump is greatly lessened in this book in comparison to his other works though the primer serves as a tool ... Read More

But overall even when its less than his best stephenson is better than most writers

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This product had a total of 4,578 reviews as of our last analysis date on Feb 25 2024.