So, any relation?Audley Strange wrote:Yeah its the sort of thing he might have written instead of The Baroque Cycle. If he was into English myths rather than the history of computing. You should read it, you'd get a kick out of it, I think.orpheus wrote:Haven't read it myself, but I recall Neal Stephenson saying he liked it. (I hope I'm not misrepresenting him.) Also Mrs. Orph liked it a lot. I'm going to add it to my precariously tall stack of books to read.
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No. I think I'm a distant relation of Hugo.Xamonas Chegwé wrote:So, any relation?Audley Strange wrote:Yeah its the sort of thing he might have written instead of The Baroque Cycle. If he was into English myths rather than the history of computing. You should read it, you'd get a kick out of it, I think.orpheus wrote:Haven't read it myself, but I recall Neal Stephenson saying he liked it. (I hope I'm not misrepresenting him.) Also Mrs. Orph liked it a lot. I'm going to add it to my precariously tall stack of books to read.
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So do I, plus 110 books on my Nook plus about 20 e-books from amazon plus an uncounted number in storage all waiting to be read. I'm going to have to figure out a way to read after I'm dead.Bella Fortuna wrote:I have one of those!!!orpheus wrote:precariously tall stack of books to read.
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