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A review by scribal8
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
3.0
When a book first releases me from it's narrative grip (ie when I finish it), I always like it better than when I have a chance to process--my favorite books are ones about which I figure some truth or insight about the theme or the characters or the built world much later. Here's my first reaction to Cryptonomicon:
"It took me a bit to warm up to it but I really enjoyed this book and look forward to reading the ones that follow it. The long descriptions of the brutality of the South Pacific war theater can be rough going, and there was one point in the middle when a "new" character was being introduced when my interest faltered, but it all starts to fit together at that point. My only real criticism is as a nerdy girl I felt pretty alienated by all the nerdy guy characters, but maybe characters in the later books will be less obsessed with their bodies."
On reflection I like it much less because the ending is completely unmemorable and I can't think of a thing I'm going to take away from it except maybe a vague curiosity about war-gold and a hatred of Captain Crunch.
"It took me a bit to warm up to it but I really enjoyed this book and look forward to reading the ones that follow it. The long descriptions of the brutality of the South Pacific war theater can be rough going, and there was one point in the middle when a "new" character was being introduced when my interest faltered, but it all starts to fit together at that point. My only real criticism is as a nerdy girl I felt pretty alienated by all the nerdy guy characters, but maybe characters in the later books will be less obsessed with their bodies."
On reflection I like it much less because the ending is completely unmemorable and I can't think of a thing I'm going to take away from it except maybe a vague curiosity about war-gold and a hatred of Captain Crunch.