FC: Cryptonomicon makes conservative Weekly Standard's book list

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

[The review probably should have said cypherpunk (not cyberpunk) novel... 
--DBM]

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From: "James Lucier" <james.lucier () att net>
To: <declan () well com>
Subject: For FC:  Hope for the World:  Weekly Standard Puts Cryptonomicon 
On Its Holiday Reading List
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 00:05:04 -0500

Hi Declan:

Politechnicals may be interested to see Neal Stephenson s _Cryptonomicon_ 
on the Weekly Standard Holiday reading list.  In the spirit of Bing Crosby 
s White Christmas, I might have suggested _Snow Crash_ myself.

Jim Lucier

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/042oeyem.asp

Katherine Mangu-Ward, editorial assistant

AS YOUR NEAREST AND DEAREST gather 'round this holiday season, you will 
surely want nothing more than some escapist fiction more interesting than 
the grisly tales of your Aunt Mabel's sciatica. Every single one of the 
characters in "Cryptonomicon" is more interesting, clever, and engaging 
than your relatives--guaranteed.

This "cyberpunk classic" by Neal Stephenson has everything--WWII 
codebreakers, a Marine with a morphine addiction, a secret stash of Nazi 
gold, digital currency, and treasure-hunting with sonar. "Cryptonomicon" is 
one of those rare novels so good you find your left hand anxiously testing 
to be sure that there are lots of pages left to read. And there always are. 
At 928 pages, "Cryptonomicon" is an enormous book that careens between the 
1940s and the 1990s, studded with clever wordplay and inside jokes. There's 
even an appendix explaining some of the simpler crypto if you are into that 
kind of thing. For more info, check out this interview with Stephenson.

"Cryptonomicon" is perfect for geeks, and the history buffs they grow up to be. 




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