A review by faintgirl
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

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.