<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aaronbrethorst</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    SP: Two-thirds of the way into your novel,
    Seveneves – in fact, on page 569 – you do
    something kind of crazy. The story suddenly
    skips ahead 5,000 years. What’s the idea here?
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It took me maybe a week to read the first 2&amp;#x2F;3&amp;#x27;s of the book, and about three weeks to read the last 1&amp;#x2F;3. In many ways, these two parts feel like completely different books, one of which is significantly better than the other.&lt;p&gt;Also, I was occasionally distracted at the beginning when snippets of dialog from &lt;i&gt;Anathem&lt;/i&gt; were reused in the form of exposition in &lt;i&gt;Seveneves&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;But, that said, I think the book is worth reading, especially the first 2&amp;#x2F;3&amp;#x27;s.&lt;p&gt;My personal, quick, rough ranking of Stephenson&amp;#x27;s bibliography:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    * Anathem
    * Snow Crash
    * The Diamond Age
    * Seveneves
    * Cryptonomicon
    * The Baroque Cycle
    * Zodiac
    * Reamde
    * The Interface
    * The Big U

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Haven&amp;#x27;t Read&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    * The Cobweb
    * The Mongoliad&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An Interview with Neal Stephenson</title><url>http://electricliterature.com/the-people-who-survive-an-interview-with-neal-stephenson-author-of-seveneves/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>basseq</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m just getting into Neal&amp;#x27;s work. I saw &lt;i&gt;Snow Crash&lt;/i&gt; on a list of best sci-fi (maybe via HN) and started there. I then read &lt;i&gt;Diamond Age&lt;/i&gt; and just finished &lt;i&gt;Cryptonomicon&lt;/i&gt; (which I really liked—probably my favorite of the three).&lt;p&gt;I started reading &lt;i&gt;Anathem&lt;/i&gt;, which I know is seen as his &amp;quot;seminal work&amp;quot; but it&amp;#x27;s been a slow start for me: all the made-up vocabulary combined with strange names makes it a very disjointed reading experience.&lt;p&gt;I read the first chapter of &lt;i&gt;Seveneves&lt;/i&gt; back in May, so that one is on the list, as is &lt;i&gt;The Baroque Cycle&lt;/i&gt;.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An Interview with Neal Stephenson</title><url>http://electricliterature.com/the-people-who-survive-an-interview-with-neal-stephenson-author-of-seveneves/</url></story>