Love of Literature

[jackofallgeeks]

About 58 pages into this Neil Stephenson book, Cryptonomicon, and I think I really like it -- aside from his disdainful tendancy toward the more vulgar words in the English language, though not nearly as horrendous as Stephen King, and probably only irksome to one such as I.

Anyways, That's 58 pages, and I've had the book for at least a week in not more. Granted, a good deal of that lapse is due to the lack of time I've put toward reading it, but... It's a large 910-page novel.

I want to write. I ALMOST have an idea -- a few characters and a rough outline for relationships, but the ever-elusive, all-important element, Plot, still evades me. And as anyone who has ever created, I doubt my own abilities.

Still, it's a good book, for the 1/18th of it I've read...

(I have half a mind to stay up all night reading this, and if not for the fact that I need to get up and drive and thing and work tomorrow, I just might have...)

Comments

[photoholic62.livejournal.com]

You are not alone. Vulgar words in both movies and books is irksome to me also. We don't use such language in our house. While I am not so niave as to think my children don't hear those words elsewhere, I am niave enough to think they should not hear them in their home. I don't believe in censoring what my children read, but we do tend to hold certain movies to watch after they are asleep. It does not bother me for them to see sex scenes, yet language and violence, especially when they are just token additives to a movie to attempt to compensate for lack of plot...well, so that bugs me.

[jackofallgeeks.livejournal.com]

Well, I might argue the same against the sex scenes... I think that there has been one sex scene I've ever seen that was tastefully done, but the majority fall under the umbrella or 'token additives,' and a great many of them encourage any number of things which, I feel, shouldn't be encouraged. Though I agree with you across the board with token additives, I'm a bit more forgiving of violence, even though (or perhapse because) I'm generally not a violent kind of guy.