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This was the book that made cyberpunk really click for me — more so than Neuromancer (which was groundbreaking but didn’t pull me in the same way).

Snow Crash is fast-paced, action-packed and genuinely fun. It feels like Neil Stephenson set out to make cyberpunk enjoyable — and it works.

I remember Y.T. even more vividly than Hiro. Both were great, but she really stood out to me.

How did you like it? Does it still feel like cyberpunk to you — or already something beyond it?

Man!

I remember some of these were great.

(Drizzt of course.)

Some… I don’t know if they’d hold up today. 😄

But I still remember sometimes reading a whole trilogy in one weekend. Diving in on Friday, coming back out Sunday evening. Those were the days.

Wonder if you read some of these, too.

Which would you recommend to new readers/your kids? Which are better left in the box?

One Hundred Years of Solitude

The Shadow of the Wind

South of the Border, West of the Sun

I’m looking for something with that same atmosphere- quiet, melancholic, dreamlike.

Slow, immersive, and mysterious. Sometimes unclear if something is real or not.

Characters evolve, and the intimacy reflects what they’re going through rather than just being there.

Ideally two adults on equal ground, both changing over time.

Tension coming more from how they relate to each other and maybe what’s left unsaid rather than from obvious tropes.

Please tell me such books exist. I’m tired of cringy romance tropes when I want something spicy.

I can see, why Neuromancer has been so influential. But reading it never gave me that "flow" feeling my favorite books do.

Maybe it's because I can't really connect to Case, maybe it's because of Gibson's dense language - I don't even really know.

Still one of the best openers in history: "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."

I'm curious how this one felt for you. Did you admire it? Or love reading it?

Starting a mini-series on Ursula K. Le Guin.

I haven’t read all of her works, but what I read stayed with me.

What struck me most about the Earthsea books is how quiet they are. Almost meditative — but still intense.

And Ged never felt like a typical fantasy hero to me. Not soft, but also not trying to prove anything all the time.

Do you like Le Guin, too? Which of her books do you like best?

Love this series! ❤️ Dark Hack and Slay, but more depth than you think, when Felix contemplates on Chaos. And often hilariously funny.

Didn’t care so much for the ending, but the journey was amazing.

One of my best personal moments: When my wife saw the cover of “Elfslayer” and asked “What’s this one now? Fishslayer?” 😂