[BlueAngel]

I recently picked up Neil Stephenson's SnowCrash and Anathem. I finished and loved Snowcrash, but I'm having a very difficult time getting past the meanderings of Anathem. I actually found it somewhat tiring trying to get past the first few pages. Haven't picked it up again so far, but I intend to try again. Anyone else have this problem? How do I get past it?

I just picked up Lilith's Brood by Octavia E. Butler, and haven't been able to put it down. I'm already at the 3rd chapter. I think I'm going to end up getting her other titles after I finish this one.
I actually read about this author and found out that she's deceased as of 2006. From what I've read and have been reading about her, it seems one of the best was lost.
If I can, I may just try to collect all her works if I can find them.

~Angela

[Ropie]

I just picked up Lilith's Brood by Octavia E. Butler, and haven't been able to put it down. I'm already at the 3rd chapter. I think I'm going to end up getting her other titles after I finish this one.

Hi, I read the first book of the trilogy and really enjoyed it but quickly got tired of Butler's heavy-handed alien romancing in the second book and did not get more than a couple of chapters through it. The first one really is excellent though and is unique enough to merit a stand alone reading in any case. Hope you enjoy the others more than I did.

[FarOffPlaces]

I also found Anathem hard to read. I enjoyed a few of his other books, and had no problem. I read around 100 pages of the book, not sure if it gets more accessible after that, but I never could get a grasp of it.

[BlueAngel]

Ropie, I understand your feelings about the alien romance. It is quite weird, not really like anything else I've read though. When I finish this trilogy, I'm looking forward to the Wild Seed trilogy. I believe that one should be good, though not without its own disturbing qualities; ie. inbreeding to create highly psychic humans.
Even though there are those very odd, and revolting things, they somehow make the horrifying realities in the stories more true in experience.

FarOffPlaces, thanx. :) Glad I'm not the only one who had issues with Anathem.

[E_Moon]

I really loved Butler's Parable of the Sower.

I had the same reaction to Stephenson that you did...loved Snow Crash, then went "Huh?" Anathem really works for some readers; others (like me) find it tough going.

[psikeyhackr]

Wild Seed is my favorite book of hers. Then I read the Xenogenesis series and it was not as interesting so I haven't gone back to her writings. I suppose I should check the rest of The Patternist series.

psik

[jbooks]

Wild Seed is my favorite book of hers. Then I read the Xenogenesis series and it was not as interesting so I haven't gone back to her writings. I suppose I should check the rest of The Patternist series.

psik

Couldn't agree with you more! Wild seed was one of those books that i just didn't put down! http://cph19.info/book/sffw/smile.gif

[GermX]

Wild Seed was great. I am actually about to re-read as soon as my on loan comes back to me froma lad down the street.