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Title: much weaker than Stephenson's other work
Review: I consider Snow Crash the best cyberpunk novel ever. Diamond Age was a bit weaker but still good. After reading the others I ran out to buy this book. Cryptonomicon is much weaker than these earlier works. The pace is slow and Snow Crash has more creative ideas on one page than this whole book on 400+ pages. I ended up selling it which I almost never do. I disagree with some of the other reviewers. I'm a computer guy too (working in the networking area) but this book doesn't have much to offer to hackers or "computer scientists".
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