Book review - "Cryptonomicon" (Neal Stephenson)

[cybermule]

Hahaha. This was awesome. It was recommended to me as a good Neal Stephenson book to read, so it was likely to be enjoyable, but I wasn't prepared to enjoy it as much as I did. Basically a reasonably good novel involving a really interesting part of history and some delicious nerdy maths stuff to rub thighs over. Again, it was nerd-stuff that was actually funny, rather than toe-curling. The dinner-party conversation Randy ends up having with his girlfriend's academic buddies is just wonderfully affirmingly word-perfect to every time I try to talk to humanities graduates, and the division of Randy's grandmother's goods up by his nerdy family manages to convey the absolute emotional dysfunctionality of oven the most apparently rational family when it comes to chattel-grabbing. I guess a lot of the observations just appealed to my predominately male and geeky brain.

Anyhoo, if the South Gloucestershire library system every release my other two Neal Stephenson reservations from the limbo of non-collected books, hopefully they'll be as good as this.

Comments

[girfan.livejournal.com]

I love that book!

[sagefemme11.livejournal.com]

Read this book on my last trip to Greece five years ago. Wonderful stuff, especially the actual decrypting. Loved it. And I loved the length and involvement. Kept me entertained on the beaches. :-)

[toxicpixie.livejournal.com]

I really enjoy 'Cryptonomicon', even on repeated re-reading!

Nathan, the Toxic Pixie