You're in for a treat, I expect...I enjoy all of his work. And you're local, so if you ever need to borrow any of them just let me know. (I believe I even have a copy of "The Big U" around here somewhere).

I agree that if you're already a scifi reader, Snow Crash isn't the game-changer that many seem to believe it was. A rollicking fun story, though; my nerd friends and I still joke about "listening to Reason". *grin*

And thanks for posting at the site, BTW. I'm just recently started trying to roll some of my energy back out of the big SNS and into my blog and other individual sites. Also, note that you can register at Disqus and "claim" that comment above (as well as any others that you've made w/ the same email address), and that you have multiple registration options, including your Facebook identity, OpenIDs, Yahoo, Google, etc. It's a pretty nice system, really. It gives you the advantage of "single sign-on"/shared identity without requiring you to only use one social networking site.