pp ~200 -- ~250/300, IIRC.

Post #432,686 by CRConrad 2/21/20 6:06:33 AM 2/21/20 6:06:33 AM Reply	pp ~200 -- ~250/300, IIRC. I found it -- the whole book, not the "Ameristan" bit, which I also rated as the best part -- far more annoying than Seveneves, which I thought on the whole quite OK (though maybe a bit rushed towards the end). Two reflections on Fall's "Ameristan": 1) "To facebook" as a transitive verb: "The whole region had been facebooked back to the Bronze Age". Nice. 2) Those "Leviticans"... The way he describes the theology of this particular branch of Meity -- haven't they basically just reverted to Judaism? -- Christian R. Conrad The Man Who (used to think he) Knows Fucking Everything Mail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi
Post #432,693 by boxley 2/21/20 5:35:03 PM 2/21/20 5:35:03 PM Reply	yabbut they are allowed to eat shrimp "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
Post #432,697 by rcareaga 2/21/20 9:59:00 PM 2/21/20 9:59:00 PM Reply	Seveneves He did his physics homework. A spacecraft took its own sweet time, consistent with angular momentum, to make its round. Credit for that. His obvious nasty “Hillary Clinton” president didn’t go over well here, even before the last election. Stephenson’s facile libertarianism has always irritated me. The second part exhausted the credit the XXI century sequence accumulated, and was utterly implausible genetically and in every other particular. I hated the book. cordially,
Post #432,707 by CRConrad 2/22/20 8:35:23 AM 2/22/20 8:35:23 AM Reply	Oh, she was supposed to be Hillary? I never got that. Are you sure? Or are you over-sensitively reading any "bitch" character as the author's take on Clinton? -- Christian R. Conrad The Man Who (used to think he) Knows Fucking Everything Mail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi
Post #432,711 by rcareaga 2/22/20 10:25:30 AM 2/22/20 10:25:30 AM Reply	Re: Oh, she was supposed to be Hillary? I never got that. Are you sure? Not certain, but this was also the impression taken by others. I’m not aware of ever having taken any other character in fiction as a stand-in for HRC apart from the candidate’s wife in the 1996 novel Primary Colors, where the correspondence was all-but explicit. cordially,

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