I really enjoyed this book, although I do think it's not quite as involving as "Cryptonomicron" or "The Baroque Cycle."  Reading through it, though, I couldn't stop my self thinking about seeing this as a movie with Eugene Mirman (http://youtu.be/IzDOyoh6N88) playing Csongor.  And man, there's an amazing setpiece (one…

Goddammit, I just finished "Reamde," and you're reminding me how awesome "Snow Crash" was.  Now I'm going to have to go get that, too.

The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T.  That one didn't need much tinkering.

Very much looking forward to this
I love Herzog, so I'm pretty psyched about it. I'm also interested in what someone like him will do with 3D, which I have not at all enjoyed up until now. Kind of makes me wish the technology had been there for "Lessons of Darkness," however.

You know, I've actually always thought that kind of thing had a lot of potential. I really wish that the Star Wars films really had gotten into some serious political and financial weeds. Could be really cool. This sounds really interesting (I just bought it on Kindle), and Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle shows us…