Cryptonomicon

[dave madden]

 =>Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 01:51:29 -0400
 =>From: "ahague" <ahague at one.net>
 =>Subject: Cryptonomicron
 =>
 =>Here's one:
 =>
 =>Has anyone read Cryptonomicron?  I'm just starting it, is it worth it?  How
 =>much is it in the style of TP?

Ah, at last a subject I can sort of follow!  I read Stephenson's _Snow
Crash_ with high expectations (TRP's name did, after all, feature
prominently in the gushing on the back cover).  Unfortunately, I
didn't particularly like the book, and was mystified by the claim that
it was like Pynchon on fast forward, or something like that.

_Cryptonomicon_, OTOH, _is_ worth a read, and perhaps even a
comparison or two to TRP.  (I have to admit to a certain trepidation
when I rushed out, on a friend's recommendation, to buy a copy and
realized that: it was only available in hardcover, and that it was by
the same guy who wrote _Snow Crash_.)  Still, I was not disappointed
until the very end, and even then not devastatingly; but the journey
is definitely worth the price of the ticket.

Take this for what it's worth: my friend and I are both geeks, and
therefore predisposed to like _any_ book that has Perl programs in it...

d.