Reviews

Criptonomicón by Neal Stephenson

ummon's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful informative tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

lily_t_h's review against another edition

Too many annoying details

crustypatriot's review against another edition

1.0

I cant take this book anymore. I gave it past 1/3 and I had to DNF. This book has made me decide that I will probably never read another Neal Stephenson book ever again. The writing in this book is some of the worst that I have possibly ever read in my life. There is 0 structure with the story. The characters all sound the exact same and are 2 dimensional, and the info dumping is absolutely ridiculous. I think Neal Stephenson has great ideas, but his style of writing is too awful for me to continue slogging through. I wouldn't recommend this novel or Neal Stephenson in general to anyone after this point.

faintgirl's review against another edition

5.0

Wow. 918 pages in about 4 days of pretty much solid reading. Cryptonomicon is bloody fantastic. A rip roaring adventure through the inventions and muddy waters of World War II intelligence to the modern day, where descendants of the WWII plot are involved in trying to create a crypto secured data haven in a fictional Far Eastern Principality. It's wonderfully paced, often hilarious, almost obsessive about technical details, but somehow still ridiculously fun. I think it'll be a long time before I pick up anything else I enjoy quite this much. The only thing that niggled slightly, and this is hardly Stephenson's fault, is that in ten years the modern day tech story has aged significantly. But you'd have to be a real miserable-ist to let that get you down.

indkt's review against another edition

adventurous informative mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

alostarre's review against another edition

Hit a reading slump. Will come back later. 

lunariumvee's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative mysterious tense slow-paced

3.0

ekurutepe's review against another edition

4.0

Interesting book. Exciting and well researched story. Ridiculously abrupt ending that does not make sense.

ksifactory's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

jazjaz's review against another edition

no puedo vibe con este libro. es como romantasy pero para tipos. 
y es tremendamente aburrido, más de lo que cualquier historia sobre criptología debería ser.