caseyhitchcock81 's review for:

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
4.0

Bob forced me to read this. I ended up quite enjoying it. All the male characters were at once competent and charmingly inept. There were decent amounts of love, sex, technology, suspense, mystery, and humor to make this one difficult book to categorize. I definitely found the pages of "code stuff" and other lengthy descriptions tiresome and masturbatory. The ending also felt a little flat. However, the many plots and characters still make me bestow four stars.

Also, Bobby Shaftoe is a firm tie (with Gilbert Blythe) for the #3 spot on my list of literary crushes.