Nearly enough fun to make up for its ludicrous parts.

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This is one of my favorite books ever. I love how epic it is, I love the time periods, I love the fast pace and snappy dialogue. I know it can be daunting for some people at times, but I promise if you make it through you’ll be glad you did.

I pretty much only read when I travel (or don’t otherwise have ready access to the internet). I’ve started this book probably 5 times now. I’ve gotten further recently than I have before though.

I love this book. First time I read it I couldn’t pick up any new book for almost a month afterwords, needed to recover from it. I finished it about 6 months ago, and have started it again recently, half way through again and enjoying it just as much as before. It is slow at times and I’ve known a few people who couldn’t get through it, but I haven’t had that problem. All the characters as so deep and interesting and they are the reason this book is great, the story is just icing on the cake.

“He has always had a weird, sick fascination with women who smoked and drank a lot. Amy does neither, but her complete disregard of modern skin-cancer precautions puts her in the same category: people too busy leading their lives to worry about extending their life expectancy.”

It’s my third time reading Cryptonomicon. I’ve gone back to i again after reading the Quicksilver trilogy and I’m enjoying it as much, if not even more, than earlier reading.s

I heard about it when it came out and since I read Snowcrash I was interested in reading it. I never got around to it. I got it from my co-worker the other day. It took him two tries to get through it. He loaned it to another co-worker who only got halfway before surrendering under it’s mighty weight. Now it has passed to me…

This is my second try at reading this book. The first time I only got a few chapters into it and put it down because of school work. This second time, I’ve gotten a little over half way through and have not the motivation to finish. I pushed myself through the first half, hoping it would pick up. I am more than a little interested in cryptography and technology, so I was by no means lost in any of his geek stuff, but I just couldn’t get into his stories.

A little hard to start as it does some character setup and uses really big words. However once the plot starts and it gets into the geek stuff, like cryptography, it is really good!

I started off full of enthusiasm for this book, but now the plot twists and coincidences are starting to feel a little contrived and forced. And I’m always a little suspicious of such long (-winded?) novels. Still quite enjoyable nonetheless.

I really like it so far. It’s interesting to see how the characters’ lives have intertwined over the years. Nice (long!) bit of historical fiction.

This is one of the roses that you’re supposed to stop and smell. A great story that sets the stage for some excellent characters.

This is real good. Inspired me to read The Code Book just to learn more about cryptography.

Neal Stephenson’s ‘Cryptonomicon’ is one of my favorite books of the past five years. I’ve given it out as Christmas, birthday presents, etc., more times than I can count. What I loved about that book is that, to me, it really described how math-oriented people THINK, and I have so seldom seen that represented in literature anywhere. That and the pure chaotic frenzy of some of the World War II stuff …

Neal Stephenon doesn’t write short, but he does write good. I mean, well. I mean, I likee his writing.

I dug Stephenson’s ‘Snow Crash,’ but it was his 70-odd page story in an old ‘Wired’ magazine about the laying of undersea fiber-optic cables and its historical precedents that first truly impressed me with this guy’s writing (and reporting) prowess. He hasn’t let me down since.

Completed September, 2000

This one is hard to put down – especially if you have more than a passing interest in computers and security. Recommended.

The first Stephenson I read. I was so impressed that within the last months I’ve read almost everything else by him. A great introduction to cryptography and why it matters.