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damestra 's review for:
Cryptonomicon
by Neal Stephenson
This was a tough book to rate. There were sections that were absolutely marvellous and exciting and a few characters that I really came to enjoy. However, in a book with dozens of characters, almost all of who are sexist males (implicitly or explicitly), there's also a lot of time spent with characters I simply couldn't stand - meaning many sections of the text were at best dull. Stephenson also has these excessive tangents about the most inane topics in order to describe a single characteristic of an individual - like pages on how a character eats his cereal - that I guess is supposed to help develop the character or endear us to him or something, but instead just left me exhausted. The mammoth work does have many gleaming gems in its center (figurative and literal) but you have to slog through a lot to get to them.