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The Big U (1984)

di Neal Stephenson

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The New York Times Book Review called Neal Stephenson's most recent novel "electrifying" and "hilarious".  but if you want to know Stephenson was doing twenty years before he wrote the epic Cryptonomicon, it's back-to-school time. Back to The Big U, that is, a hilarious send-up of American college life starring after years our of print, The Big U is required reading for anyone interested in the early work of this singular writer.… (altro)
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    La natura diacronica della coscienza di Julian Jaynes (themulhern)
    themulhern: "The Big U" has a note about "The Origin" at the front and a plot influenced by the ideas.
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    The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire {abridged, Naxos} di Edward Gibbon (themulhern)
    themulhern: At least two characters in the novel have been given the names of the Roman emperors Pertinax and Septimius Severus. This has meaning within the framework of the novel.
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I read this the summer before college, when I was reading every college-related book I could get my hands on. That ended up being mostly Big U (giddy, dark, ridiculous, and hilarious) and Tom Wolfe's I Am Charlotte Simmons (his disdain for his own characters dripped off every word).

Both very useful in my college life. Definitely. ( )
  caedocyon | Feb 23, 2024 |
In the future, when an author thinks that his book isn't worth reading, I'm going to take his word for it. The Big U is too over the top to be an enjoyable, subtle satire of the large university life, although it had that potential in the beginning. On the other hand, the melodrama and large scale events are too trivial for the novel to be epic. The overall effect is pretty "meh."
The detail and fact finding that Stephenson is known for is all but absent in this book. The only signature Stephenson move that the Big U contains is the litany of story lines and multiple character narratives, but with uncharacteristic brevity and lack of details, the constant storyline switching is irritating and makes the novel shallower rather than deeper.
Also, Stephenson should know that his fans are the physics majors, hackers and LARPers of the universe and be a little more careful with the negative stereotyping ( )
  settingshadow | Aug 19, 2023 |
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  freixas | Mar 31, 2023 |
He should have called it The Big Red Go Fan. That is what this book will always be to me. Like Snowcrash, I will never forget it. Unlike Snowcrash, I did not like it. I LOVED Snowcrash. There was little character development. Then, I want action. There was action, but it was very strange action, which is what one can expect from a Neal Stephenson novel. I don't even remember the end. I should read it again. But I just can't make myself read the last few pages so that I can finish this review. Then why did I give it four stars? Was it well written? Yes. Did it tell the story of a year in the big university? Yes. Four stars. Did it do everything a four-star book does and bring that something extra that makes this book stand out as great? No.
It was very clever. However, it was lost in too many characters and subplots, which were never resolved. ( )
  nab6215 | Jan 18, 2022 |
um. What did I just read? ( )
  resoundingjoy | Jan 1, 2021 |
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The New York Times Book Review called Neal Stephenson's most recent novel "electrifying" and "hilarious".  but if you want to know Stephenson was doing twenty years before he wrote the epic Cryptonomicon, it's back-to-school time. Back to The Big U, that is, a hilarious send-up of American college life starring after years our of print, The Big U is required reading for anyone interested in the early work of this singular writer.

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