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Read it. It's a great novel. It's equal measures thrilling, hilarious, and intellectually stimulating. It'll throw you a hysterical, suspenseful pizza delivery scene and then expend your brain with long discussions on neurolinguistics and Babylonian culture. It's a mindwarp of a novel.Let me know what you think of Snow Crash. Very interested in that book myself.
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I'm on book ten of Lee Child's Jack Reacher series. Reacher is such a great character. He's a moutainous badass, the ultimate alpha male, but he has a real moral compass. I'm eager for the movie adaptation of the ninth novel, One Shot, but I remain to be convinced that Tom Cruise is Jack Reacher. I know Child himself has signed off on it, but I just don't see it. This is more than a "but Lois isn't a redhead!" fanboy complaint. Jack Reacher is a big, powerful man. His physique and his personality are absolutely intertwined. He's also slyly humorous and sort of bemused in his interactions with people. I like Tom Cruise, but his strengths tend towards very serious characters. Yes, even Les Grossman. That character works because Cruise played it like he wasn't in on the joke. I'm going to keep an open mind (and they got Werner Herzog to play the villain, so I'm so there), but it's going to take a lot to convince me that Cruise is Jack Reacher. If Dwayne Johnson had any sense, he'd have persued this role to the ends of the earth.
