neal stephenson

Finished Quicksilver. Don't really see why people are raving over it. It's not terribly elegant, and granted, while it is clever, I've since given up on authors who are smart but don't have much else to show for it (cf. Salman Rushdie). The problem now is that books 2 and 3 are sitting at home, and I guess I do have to finish them seeing as book 1 wasn't terrible. This is how I kill myself.