THE BORE

General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Billy Rygar on June 28, 2007, 05:54:56 PM

Title: Richard Powers
Post by: Billy Rygar on June 28, 2007, 05:54:56 PM

Has anyone read anything of his?  I started The Gold Bug Variations last night and was just wondering.

Title: Re: Richard Powers
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on June 28, 2007, 06:04:00 PM

I read Galatea 2.0 back in the day. I enjoyed it, but it ended up spending too much time moping around college feeling pitiable and not enough heuristic AIs violating the Turing test.

I own both Goldbug Variations and Three Farmers on their Way to a Dance, but have never gotten more than about 100 pages into either. I think I respect him as an author but find it difficult to enjoy him.