Even if you aren't a geek, if you have any interest in treasure hunting type stories or WWII based historical fiction this would be a good novel to pick up.
i'm torn between the three and the four here. on the one hand, it's pretty difficult to write a 1100-page book. Snow Crash and Diamond Age both clearly deserve the four, perhaps even a high four. but I find with Stephenson, what if he had kept it to 700 pages, but there was absolutely no padding wha...
Reading this book was a lot like riding in a car that steadily picks up speed and then stalls out. I wanted to like it a great deal more than I ended up doing. I would be trucking along, really getting into it, starting to get eager about turning the page and finding out what was going to happen nex...
If Neal Stephenson wrote primary school textbooks for a living, the next few generations would be nothing but engineers and scientists.Two months it took me to read this. Two. Months. With breaks, but still. This book is HUGE, both in size and story. Stories. No, STOREYS. 4 main characters in 2 time...
Long, yes, but still very engrossing. Slow-moving, but not in a bad way; rather the pace was a bit like peeling a onion--layer by layer, you uncovered more of the story and understood the characters. Similar, in my mind to Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. While some of the math was (ashamedly) over my...
If I had to use one word to describe this book, it would be epic. Epic in length (1100+ pages or 42 hours) and epic in scope. The book switches back and forth to two time periods, World War II and the present. The World War II story focuses mainly on the Allied efforts to uncover German plans by ...
9/2006 My first of this genre, which seems to rejoice in the name techno-sci-fi-thriller. Riveting, funny, and very well-written. Set in and around Manila during WWII and the 1990's, it's full of real people and geeky crypto-trivia. I'm a fan.
Enjoyed it a lot. I found it very informative as far as giving a lot of actual real information about the history of computers and codes... it inspired me to look up some facts to double-check things! Not really SF, per se, but definitely for those interested in sf/cyberpunk, as well as historical f...
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