Haven't got Diamond Age, have got The Cryptonominicon by Stephenson which seems like an intimidating literal brick of text. :D
You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
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.