by Neal Stephenson
Zodiac is the first book I’ve read by Neal Stephenson, an author I see mentioned fairly often, often with mixed reviews. My own reaction to this particular book is a little mixed. The title, Zodiac, refers to a type of motorized raft the characters used. The story is set in Boston and is told fro...
Sangamon Taylor might actually be the love of my life (and, as far as I'm concerned, the fact that he's an emotionally unavailable, fictional character is kind of a win-win). By my metrics of greatness, billing ST (that's what all the cool kids call him) as the “Granola James Bond” undersells him by...
Zodiac is described as an eco-thriller, which about sums it up, actually! It certainly is a thriller - I read all 290 or so pages in one (long) night, gripped from the outset. The hero of the story is a chemist working for GEE, a direct action environmental organisation, in its Boston branch. He'...
A great adventure story—an “eco-thriller,” if you will. This is Stephenson's most conventional book, in that the main character stays the main character throughout, and the Big Bad he fights remains the villain throughout. The presence of consistancy was a nice change from his more frenetic works,...
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