More Words, Deeper Hole

It's been a generation, almost, since I've been able to finish a book by KSR, whose work for a while I quite liked. It's not his politics, sexual attitudes, ethnic sterotyping, et cetera, that stops me, I think, as I rarely get far enough into one of his books for that to matter. He just bores me. Which is a pity because on occasion the type of thing he is writing about (e.g. the Mars trilogy) is very much to my taste.

However, he's won a number of awards since I gave up on him, and I have to recognize that many people not only finish, but greatly enjoy his more recent works. Persistance is a lot in this world, I expect him to continue to be nominated, and possibly win awards. But I don't expect him ever again to write a book I will like.

Instead I imagine "Blue Mars", "Antarctica", etc as these wonderful books out there - I even think I know the plots - which I will somehow never read, as I will probably never read "Coriolanus".

William Hyde