Comment by joshstrange

It didn’t take me long to parse out the meaning but the phrasing was confusing.

“The next book he wrote, Noise, ….” Would have been better or “After that book he wrote Noise….”.

I absolutely was confused for a second or two and thought “wait, are we talking about a different person? He isn’t going to have a ‘next’ book unless he had one queued up?”.

Did I need the explanation above? Not really, I’d come to the right conclusion on my own but I can imagine someone who isn’t a native speaker (reader?) might stumble on that more and I enjoyed the confirmation.