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3.67 AVERAGE
3.67 AVERAGE
adventurous
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Really boring in large sections.
Mja, meer dan 3* is het niet, het boek komt te langzaam op gang? Er komen nog twee delen, en uiteindelijk maakt deze wel nieuwsgierig naar wat nog komen gaat.
Dochter van een communist en een hippie, Dawn Rae, reist tussen Amerika en de Sovjet-Unie in de eerste helft van de 20e eeuw, waarbij ze wordt "opgeleid" tot KGB-spion.
"“But after she died, it felt right to stay there with Papa for a time. Which is how I got caught up in the Bonus Army stuff.” “Rekindling the revolutionary fervor that had lain dormant during your exile as an impressionable youth surrounded by charismatic revanchists,” Dr. Stasova corrected her, writing the words down. “Exactly.”"
Stephenson is altijd goed ingelezen op zijn onderwerpen, en je wordt in elk geval altijd goed bijgepraat over de uiteenlopendste onderwerpen - in dit geval onder meer de Bonus Army in de jaren 30, waar 43000 demonstranten zich rondom Washington DC hadden verschanst, polo, het ontstaan van de atoombom, en Sovjet politiek gekonkel.
"His eyes fixed on the purple glow of a germicidal lamp. “Thing is that when transitions happen, energy gets emitted, or absorbed,” he said. He slid off his stool and moved to one farther down the bar. “I just soaked up energy, now I’m in a higher state.” The soda jerk, squirming a towel around the inside of a parfait glass, eyed Dick curiously, then looked at Dawn. “Your date soaks up any more energy, I’ll buy you a Pepsi.” “Won’t happen,” Dick said, “’cause I can emit radiation and jump back down to the lower orbital.” He sat next to Dawn and glared at the soda jerk, who was twice his size. “The Bohr atom,” Dawn said, “that’s what you’re getting at.”"
Misschien moet ik de Quicksilver trilogie maar eens herlezen - die blijft in mijn hoofd een van beste historische romans die ik gelezen heb - was die in het begin ook zo lastig in te komen?
"Aurora wondered if Zhirkin knew about Shpak. If Zhirkin was afraid of her. Because that was how it worked. Beria was at the center of a web of people who were all afraid, for good reason, of being killed by the others."
Dochter van een communist en een hippie, Dawn Rae, reist tussen Amerika en de Sovjet-Unie in de eerste helft van de 20e eeuw, waarbij ze wordt "opgeleid" tot KGB-spion.
"“But after she died, it felt right to stay there with Papa for a time. Which is how I got caught up in the Bonus Army stuff.” “Rekindling the revolutionary fervor that had lain dormant during your exile as an impressionable youth surrounded by charismatic revanchists,” Dr. Stasova corrected her, writing the words down. “Exactly.”"
Stephenson is altijd goed ingelezen op zijn onderwerpen, en je wordt in elk geval altijd goed bijgepraat over de uiteenlopendste onderwerpen - in dit geval onder meer de Bonus Army in de jaren 30, waar 43000 demonstranten zich rondom Washington DC hadden verschanst, polo, het ontstaan van de atoombom, en Sovjet politiek gekonkel.
"His eyes fixed on the purple glow of a germicidal lamp. “Thing is that when transitions happen, energy gets emitted, or absorbed,” he said. He slid off his stool and moved to one farther down the bar. “I just soaked up energy, now I’m in a higher state.” The soda jerk, squirming a towel around the inside of a parfait glass, eyed Dick curiously, then looked at Dawn. “Your date soaks up any more energy, I’ll buy you a Pepsi.” “Won’t happen,” Dick said, “’cause I can emit radiation and jump back down to the lower orbital.” He sat next to Dawn and glared at the soda jerk, who was twice his size. “The Bohr atom,” Dawn said, “that’s what you’re getting at.”"
Misschien moet ik de Quicksilver trilogie maar eens herlezen - die blijft in mijn hoofd een van beste historische romans die ik gelezen heb - was die in het begin ook zo lastig in te komen?
"Aurora wondered if Zhirkin knew about Shpak. If Zhirkin was afraid of her. Because that was how it worked. Beria was at the center of a web of people who were all afraid, for good reason, of being killed by the others."
adventurous
challenging
informative
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
funny
informative
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
adventurous
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
adventurous
fast-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
adventurous
medium-paced
adventurous
funny
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Is this science fiction?
Yes, in the way that Stephenson has always defined it—fiction about science. It is not speculative fiction, except to the degree historical fiction inherently requires some small amount of speculation. This is probably the best test case so far for Stephenson's claim, however. Even the Baroque cycle was more directly "fiction about science" than Polostan, but it doesn't require a particularly attentive reader to see the building blocks along the way.
I rather hope that as the Baroque Cycle/Cryptonomicon are to computing, Bomb Light will be to particle physics, and if that's the case, I am excited to see where we end up several books from now.
Is this Neal Stephenson?
Absolutely, both in authorship and in the qualities that make his writing so distinctive. Also yes in the sense that this should be satisfying for Stephenson readers who enjoy his less high-concept offerings, like the early books in the Baroque cycle. This is not the sprawling audacity of Seveneves or Anathem, and is less densely layered than Cryptonomicon, but hangs a compelling, compulsive narrative on a clever storytelling hook.
Yes, I finished this book within 48 hours. As I say, a compulsive narrative.
Yes, in the way that Stephenson has always defined it—fiction about science. It is not speculative fiction, except to the degree historical fiction inherently requires some small amount of speculation. This is probably the best test case so far for Stephenson's claim, however. Even the Baroque cycle was more directly "fiction about science" than Polostan, but it doesn't require a particularly attentive reader to see the building blocks along the way.
I rather hope that as the Baroque Cycle/Cryptonomicon are to computing, Bomb Light will be to particle physics, and if that's the case, I am excited to see where we end up several books from now.
Is this Neal Stephenson?
Absolutely, both in authorship and in the qualities that make his writing so distinctive. Also yes in the sense that this should be satisfying for Stephenson readers who enjoy his less high-concept offerings, like the early books in the Baroque cycle. This is not the sprawling audacity of Seveneves or Anathem, and is less densely layered than Cryptonomicon, but hangs a compelling, compulsive narrative on a clever storytelling hook.
Yes, I finished this book within 48 hours. As I say, a compulsive narrative.