![]() ![]() You do not skim through this looking for the good parts, but if you take the time to embrace the journey, you will not be disappointed. ![]() The result is a multigenerational treasure hunt worthy of an Indiana Jones adventure, but unlike Indiana Jones, this is not a light read. His collection of fictional and nonfictional characters orbits each other across a thousand pages and propels the reader through dual timelines of World War II and the dot-com startup decade of the 1990s. Stephenson delights in explaining how all of these things go together. The author, Neal Stephenson, describes a story that is set around the intersection between the discovery of world-changing math insights and the incipient designs of our computer science founding fathers. To me, Cryptonomicon is the quintessential hacker novel. I said during the introduction to this series that I wouldn’t focus purely on technical literature, or even just nonfiction, for that matter. ![]()
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