Cryptonomicon

First off the bat, this is a book. I mean, a Book… Maybe even a BOOK. Reading it reminded me of lugging The Lord of the Rings around with me when I was about 9, knowing that I wanted to finish it, and enjoying every minute of reading it, but being very aware of the number of minutes it would eventually take me to finish it. I haven’t read The Lord of the Rings again since (The Hobbit, conversely, has had about ten re-reads). What I mean by this, is that to properly capture every nuance of emotion felt, every intertwined thread of Stephenson’s absurdly twisting plot unravelled, and every technological theory applied throughout this mighty tome would take a far greater mind than mine, and would consist of considerably more than a brief review on a no-name blog such as this.

Waterhouse opens his mouth and says “Gxnn bhldh sqrd m!”