have enjoyed Neal Stephenson "Snow Crash", quite visionary really but we'll researched & detailed about religion, linguistics and a quite frightening possibility with regards to consumerism/corporations.
I'm sure it's been mentioned elsewhere previously, but I just finished reading and really enjoyed Troll Wall. Brilliantly written and a great climbing story. Unbelievable it went unpublished for 50 years, and well done to VP for seeing the value in publishing it.
John, I enjoyed House of Rumour, a bit of a romp as you said earlier and very entertaining. You might enjoy Sex and Rockets, the biography of Jack Parsons.Finished Nicholas Royle's Reigicide. Quite grim and disturbing.Just started Man with a Blue Scarf, Martin Gayford's (art critic) account of sitting for Lucien Freud.
What I want to know is wtf happend to Fingers of a Martyr
Falling Down if you liked Cryptonomicon you will like probably like Reamde, which I think is Stephenson's latest. I couldn't read Anathem either, I found it painful for some reason.
anyway for the kindle-less among us to read it?