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Title: Worth the time
Review: This is a really long book and I hesitated to start on it since my track record on finishing such is less than stellar. Turns out I was happily turning pages all the way to the end. Like Stephenson's other books it's built around an interesting view of the future, in this case an "off-shore data bank" service that depends on excellent crytography. The book is really two separate but related stories, one set in WWII and one a bit in the future, with the text jumping back and forth between them. Now, if someone had told me that before I started I would have groaned, but Stephenson holds it all together and makes it work beautifully. Good read.
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