Cryptonomicon

[MalignD at aol.com]

I'm about half-way through Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon and, unless it 
goes down the crapper from here on out, I recommend it.

It's less a brilliant book than a book about some brilliant people--Allan 
Turing, foremost--and interesting topics--cryptology generally, WWII code 
breaking, specifically.  In that regard, it's a book more like Bruce Duffy's 
novel about Wittgenstein, Russell, and G.E. Moore (which I would also 
recommend), The World as I Found It, than like Pynchon's novels.  But it's 
fun and compelling and intelligent.

I seem to recall Richard Romeo mentioning that he read it.  Liked it too, as 
I recall.

Anyway, for what it's worth