Y.T.’s mom decides to spend between fourteen and fifteen minutes reading the memo. It’s better for younger workers to spend too long, to show that they’re careful, not cocky. It’s better for older workers to go a little fast, to show good management potential. She’s pushing forty. She scans through the memo, hitting the Page Down button at reasonably regular intervals, occasionally paging back up to pretend to reread some earlier section. The computer is going to notice all this. It approves of rereading. It’s a small thing, but over a decade or so this stuff really shows up on your work-habits summary.
Snow Crash
Incredible book. Takes a chapter or two to get used to the writing style (2d person present tense if I recall).
Correction: 3rd person. Somehow the present tense throws a different reading rhythm that you have to get into first.
Wouldn’t 2nd person be more like
The snippet above read like 3rd person present tense to me, which is still definitely unusual.
Yeah, 2nd person is pretty rare. the “Broken Earth” books by NK Jemisen are 2nd person, if i recall.
Interesting, only instances I can think of for 2nd person writing are those old “choose your own adventure” books.
Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir is second person, and it uses it to aid in the disorienting style of the book
I thought this was a quote from the article until the end
Back when it was published in '92, it was obvious fiction. These days, not as much.