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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 7244614" data-attributes="member: 20564">Part way through &quot;You&quot; by Austin Grossman, and it feels a bit like a Neil Stephenson story - meandering with lots of backstory flashbacks, but pulling the reader into all of these minute details.&nbsp; But I like that sort of thing, that ridiculously fleshed out build-up because it's told in an entertaining manner.&nbsp; (The seven page side note about choosing a dentist for a root canal in Cryptonomicon is a great example - nothing to do with the plot, but tell you about the main character and gives you a frame of reference for how they see someone else.&nbsp; And dang amusing.)But we're still discovering the plot and I'm 1/3 of the way through.&nbsp; There's more going on then obvious, or at least I hope there is.&nbsp; Revelations are slow to come out.One thing is that it references a lot of real world, including books by other authors and not just &quot;classics&quot;.&nbsp; Came out five years before Ready Player One which made that into a primary theme, here it feels more like the pop-culture references in Gilmore Girls, except for people into fantasy, tabletop gaming, computer gaming, or F/SF reading.&nbsp; Name checks Dragon magazine, the Fionovar Tapestry books, etc.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue, post: 7244614, member: 20564"] Part way through "You" by Austin Grossman, and it feels a bit like a Neil Stephenson story - meandering with lots of backstory flashbacks, but pulling the reader into all of these minute details. But I like that sort of thing, that ridiculously fleshed out build-up because it's told in an entertaining manner. (The seven page side note about choosing a dentist for a root canal in Cryptonomicon is a great example - nothing to do with the plot, but tell you about the main character and gives you a frame of reference for how they see someone else. And dang amusing.) But we're still discovering the plot and I'm 1/3 of the way through. There's more going on then obvious, or at least I hope there is. Revelations are slow to come out. One thing is that it references a lot of real world, including books by other authors and not just "classics". Came out five years before Ready Player One which made that into a primary theme, here it feels more like the pop-culture references in Gilmore Girls, except for people into fantasy, tabletop gaming, computer gaming, or F/SF reading. Name checks Dragon magazine, the Fionovar Tapestry books, etc. [/QUOTE]

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