bookishnerdgirl 's review for:

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

3.0

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This took me forever to finish, nearly 6 months, and not for lack of trying to finish sooner. Generally, a good book takes me 3-5 days depending on my work events/schedule. There was a point in which I started plowing through pages just to finish the story only to realize I missed something and had to backtrack. As much as I enjoyed the book, it was a chore to finish, and having been told that this is a must read for every need or geek, I'm surprised at how long it took me to finish. Overall, a good puzzle (but I'd figured out most of the main puzzlers fairly early) with lots of geeky jokes.