DODO just came out. You won't believe it: it has a proper ending! Better, about 80% of the way through occurs one of my favorite things I've ever read and which I refuse to spoil for anyone. I'll just say that so far, everyone who's read it has immediately recognized it. My wife walked out to the kitchen where I was washing dishes, exclaimed, "The [Noun]s are [Verb]ing [Noun]!" and I was like, "Told you it was good!" She agreed that although she had been kind of indifferent up to that point, the payoff was worth the rather slow buildup.
Yes, Cryptonomicon is *notorious*. One of my friends who otherwise loved the book is still bitter that I didn't warn him about the ending when I recced it. He gave me a hard time about it for like a month. I told him DODO had a proper ending. :P But up until this year, Cryptonomicon was the only book my wife and I had both liked in 11 years of knowing each other. Despite the ending. I told my friend I'd forgotten about the ending, because when I'm rereading, I just skip that part! He still gave me many dirty virtual looks in chat, and I can't blame him.
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Date: 2018-09-18 04:42 am (UTC)Yes, Cryptonomicon is *notorious*. One of my friends who otherwise loved the book is still bitter that I didn't warn him about the ending when I recced it. He gave me a hard time about it for like a month. I told him DODO had a proper ending. :P But up until this year, Cryptonomicon was the only book my wife and I had both liked in 11 years of knowing each other. Despite the ending. I told my friend I'd forgotten about the ending, because when I'm rereading, I just skip that part! He still gave me many dirty virtual looks in chat, and I can't blame him.