SciFi and Fantasy Book Club discussion

I haven't gotten very far yet so I will wait until a few days but does anyone right now have a favorite character...and why...are these characters easy to identify with?

I'm loving Hiro. Very self-assured and somewhat eccentric is my cup of tea.

I like that Kourier girl in the beginning. That's my kind of lady!

I have finished the book, and I love Y.T.! I love how her character is funky.. takes no crap. A free spirit.

I am only half way through the book, but Hiro is definitely growing on me. At first I wasn't sure if i was supposed to identify or connect with him. The third person narrative seemed really far removed, but Hiro keeps cracking me up--especially the analogies and similes that Stephenson employs to describe Hiro's realizations.

"...he finally went through a belated, dim-witted epiphany, not a briliant light shining down from heaven, more like the brown glimmer of a half-dead flashlight from the top of a stepladder..." (pg 59)

I liked Y.T. and I also liked Raven (though I'm not sure if I was supposed to like him or not.) I had a picture in my head about what he looked like, and then I realized that in my head he looked like the big guy that was just voted off Survivor!

I think Y.T. is cool as heck.

(Nell from Stephenson's The Diamond Age reminds me of a much cooler version of Y.T.)

I'm also really enjoying Y.T. She's got a spunky attitude that is just hard not to love.

Definitely Y.T. Her attitude is classic and nothing seems to faze her.

Favorite supporting character is Fido. "Jack the sound barrier. Bring the noise."

Y.T. is the best! She has great courage and I admire that in a person.

I think it is kinda neat that most people picked YT as their favorite character. The author did a real good job with getting the reader to relate to YT!