Cryptonomicon

[Jasper Fidget]

Loved that book, way better than his other work (which tends to feature a
bad-ass smart-guy protagonist, where this one divides by 2).  Also highly
recommended, this essay by NS: http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html
"In the Beginning was the Command Line", which became an instant classic in
the linux/hax0r crowd, but goes well beyond geek stuff into a discussion of
applied metaphor and "metaphor shear", ranging from OS desktops to Disney
World.

Jasper Fidget

----- Original Message -----
From: <MalignD at aol.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 11:34 AM
Subject: Cryptonomicon


> 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
>
>