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Title: A Great Read
Review: Picking up this book is daunting at almost 1,000 pages. However, I soon came to dread the end of the book; a great--and rare for me--sign that I'm enjoying the hell out of a book. Diamond Age it ain't, but one can hardly blame Stephenson for failing to top that masterpiece.The story and characters are very interesting and believable. Stephenson is in rare form in Cryptonomicon, with his wry humor and penchant for balancing hyperbole with understatement. The story soon sucked me in and had me laughing out loud at times.If the book has a flaw, it has to be with the spell checking. Seriously. Where the hell was Stephenson's editor? I found no fewer than 6 typos (I'm sure there were more) that, ironically, were caught by Stephenson's spell-checking program but not by the human editor who is supposed to ketch such thongs.I highly recommend this book to anyone who is involved with technology, be it working in the industry or just fascinated by it.
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