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Cryptonomicon is one of the best reads on the planet, it's famous.

Is it now, though? I read it and didn't manage to get into it much, and don't really remember anything from it.

I think it's one of those works of art that were so revolutionary that they started a whole genre, but now they seem badly done and clichéd just because everyone has copied them and iterated on them.

I found it witty and somewhat educational, but man is it long. I read it on the kindle and when I thought that I must be getting close to the end, I had only read 30% of it. It takes some determination to get through.

Yeah, it's been a while since I read it, but I did find it to be a slog.

After the novel itself ends, there's quite a bit of additoinal material.

Some of the tech's a bit long-in-the-tooth (the whole data haven concept), but the genre was already well-established when the book turned up (Gravity's Rainbow (1973) in particular and postmodern literature in general). I, personally, enjoy it.

I got about halfway through and forgot I was in the middle of reading it. The story never really grabbed me. I say this as someone who usually rips through a book a week.

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