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user-inactivated  ·  2893 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: April 23rd: What are you reading this week?

Cryptonomicon is a lot of fun if you know/are the sort of people he's writing about, but I'm constantly surprised it gets recommended outside of techy circles. It's like a big collection of in-jokes and history of cryptography and computing with a half-assed thriller plot to sort of tie it together.





kleinbl00  ·  2892 days ago  ·  link  ·  

And I have a more-than-passing familiarity with all of it, and it felt like name-checking to me. I didn't feel like Stephenson wanted me to know these people, I felt like Stephenson was playing Bingo with how many names he could get into it.