I went to the public library today to get a specific book. The fiction section has about 8 shelves, so, 16 rows. There is exactly one person in fiction, and, of course, she is standing in front of the book that I want. My book is belt level directly in front of her. The woman is scanning titles at eye level and up. My wife and I stop, each of us on one side of the woman, obviously there, obviously eyeballing a certain book directly ahead. Does she get a hint? Does she move? Of course not. She stands and scans. We are unacknowledged.
I think about reaching into the breech and grabbing the book, no harm done, but don't. "Excuse me," my wife says. No response. "Excuse me," my wife repeats and reaches in to quickly fetch out the book. The woman never looked at us, replied, or anything. Maybe she was deaf, maybe mad at us for for being inbher space, possibly standing her ground as she was here first by golly!, maybe mentally challenged. Still, weird. And with 16 rows! Of course she's there!
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Plot twist, they were the author of the book, standing guard, hoping no one would ever read it.
What was the book?
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. She was perusing the extensive Danielle Steele section. I like plot twists, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't Danielle Steele. :)
i just checked Libby app to see if it was available at my library, but no, so i tagged to be notified if/when it is.
I borrowed Anathem by same author instead.
Oh, I've got that one in my ebook collection. I got about 100 pages in then went off and did something else. I will get back to it at some point. The only other one I've read is his meta-verse ramblings, Snow Crash.
I just finished Snow Crash. I kept hearing of it and Cryptonomicon in places. I'm not a sci-fi reader at all, but felt it would be some okay summer reading. I thought Snow Crash was good, not great, but entertaining enough. If there was a movie, I'd watch it.
Ask Zuck, he loves the book, and gets all his execs to read it it, allegedly.
I think its too "deep" and "abstract" for a film, particularly the stuff about Babylonian language and so on (without spoilers). Cryptonomicon is a large-ass book, good luck getting through it. One day, I will too.
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