Cryptonomicon is a good book but it's long. It's also probably not what most people are thinking from the title... it's basically a book about the WW2 and cryptography from multiple perspectives and it's a multiple long winding stories that eventually come together. I liked it.
Just like the scene about the Euphrates from Snowcrash. Really brought the "Snow" into the "Crash". Maybe that's bad and carnal, but that winding story eventually did have a point, I guess.
I had read about ... the first hundred pages of Cryptonomicon before I put it down. When I pick it up again at some point, I'll get through it.
I've got a small, tiny bookshelf to get through, then I've got ebooks for DAYS.
Yes I have. I think you even commented on my write up of that book here, or maybe on Steem, I first read it a long time ago.
Agreed, Snow Crash and The Diamond Age are must reads!
Both belong to my top favorites, have red them more than once!
Haven't got Diamond Age, have got The Cryptonominicon by Stephenson which seems like an intimidating literal brick of text. :D
Cryptonomicon is a good book but it's long. It's also probably not what most people are thinking from the title... it's basically a book about the WW2 and cryptography from multiple perspectives and it's a multiple long winding stories that eventually come together. I liked it.
Just like the scene about the Euphrates from Snowcrash. Really brought the "Snow" into the "Crash". Maybe that's bad and carnal, but that winding story eventually did have a point, I guess.
I had read about ... the first hundred pages of Cryptonomicon before I put it down. When I pick it up again at some point, I'll get through it.
I've got a small, tiny bookshelf to get through, then I've got ebooks for DAYS.