Eleanor's review
Cryptonomicon
by Neal Stephenson
Eleanor's review
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Eleanor's review
rating:
bookshelves:
historical-fiction,
science-fiction
There are plenty of reviews here already, so I'll just say that I loved this book. The prose is chatty and meanders around for 900 pages, only occasionally brushing up against the plot, but I enjoyed every little pointless digression. The chapters are short, which means that I kept reading just one more when I really ought to have been closing the book and going to sleep.
I do want to mention that the book is hilarious in places, because I didn't pick up on that from any of the reviews I read.
My favorite characters were Lawrence Waterhouse, the WWII cryptographer, and Bobby Shaftoe the marine, but Randy Waterhouse of the 1990's won me over with his description of his trip into the jungle, and with his solution to the squabbling over the distribution of his grandmother's furniture.
I do want to mention that the book is hilarious in places, because I didn't pick up on that from any of the reviews I read.
My favorite characters were Lawrence Waterhouse, the WWII cryptographer, and Bobby Shaftoe the marine, but Randy Waterhouse of the 1990's won me over with his description of his trip into the jungle, and with his solution to the squabbling over the distribution of his grandmother's furniture.
