Also my main beef with the work is that we learn too little and too slowly of the answers to Harry’s questions. (Such as “how do you think with a cat’s brains”.)
This was what confirmed Eliezer’s skill as a writer in my mind. He resisted the (typical nerdish) impulse to vomit out pages of obsessively detailed explanations, instead leading the reader on with tantalising hints spaced far apart. It probably accounts for a lot of the book’s notorious addictiveness.
Also my main beef with the work is that we learn too little and too slowly of the answers to Harry’s questions. (Such as “how do you think with a cat’s brains”.)
This was what confirmed Eliezer’s skill as a writer in my mind. He resisted the (typical nerdish) impulse to vomit out pages of obsessively detailed explanations, instead leading the reader on with tantalising hints spaced far apart. It probably accounts for a lot of the book’s notorious addictiveness.