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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 18 2018, @03:01AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 18 2018, @03:01AM (#736358)

    Stephenson's writing is technically brilliant, and he has a good sense of humor, but he is a proto-SJW.

    His books are like those old magical alignment books in D&D, if you read one of them and your alignment isn't SJW, you will take a minus 5% hit to your accumulated experience points.

    Ask me how I know :(

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  • (Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 18 2018, @12:20PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 18 2018, @12:20PM (#736469)

    Alternatively, you are seeing things that aren't there.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 18 2018, @02:44PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 18 2018, @02:44PM (#736534)

      I have only read Snow Crash so have a limited say. I would not call it SJW-writing but I definitely was pushed away by the values communicated, maybe something GP felt similarly. To me it was his complete adherence to mainstream thinking (the cool sword fighter, the noble wild man, the Mafia with integrity) that I disliked. Also his unimaginative development of the action scenes that remembered me of very cheap action movies were weak points.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 18 2018, @08:39PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 18 2018, @08:39PM (#736716)

    You just inspired me to vote for snowcrash, thanks for the helpful tips!