Cryptonomicon Book Reviews

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Disapointed. This book came highly recommended. However, I got nearly half way through the book before giving up. The three separate stories were still not connected convincingly, and I still didn't care for any of the three antagonists. This book represents time I will never get back.

Crypto omicron is pure drivel. I have never wasted so much time on a novel in my 64 years of reading. This isn't close to storytelling of any kind. I can't believe anyone could waste the money needed to publish such drivel!!! To think I even held out hope that this novel would somehow redeem itself......

Pondering mess. I can count on 1 hand the number of books i have stopped reading midway through. This is one of those books . A pondering mess, lurching back and forth in time and geography with a tedious microscopic attention to detail making what should be a page of action more like a paragraph. On to better things!

Great book, pretty good ebook. The book itself is great. I couldn't put it down and I find myself more interested in WW2 history after some of the fiction/non-fiction mashups that Stephenson played with in the book. I'm not really a math purist but loved the book. The eBook was a good production. My only complaint was that there was probably something like 20-30 words that had spaces in them. I'm assuming some artifact of moving from fixed width layout where there were line breaks to a dynamic width. It wasn't overly distracting.

Superb storytelling. One of my all-time favorite works of fiction. Deftly combines WW2 Enigma-ish and beyond crypto with wartime derring-do and modern privacy relevant ideas like the data vault. Many memorable characters and expert writing. Rarely does a novel make me laugh out loud, but Cryptonomicon has those moments as well.

My favorite book of all time. I have read this book many times. Neal Stephenson's books are a part of my library but this one in particular speaks to me as programmer and 'tech enthusiast'. I jumped at the chance to get a version that can is on my phone all the time. Odd since I just thought about taking it down and reading it again. My physical copy is in the exact center of my book shelf above my computer and holds a commanding place in my loft surrounded by tech, photography and the Physics of Superheros books. My only regret with this book is that it reminds me that I had a chance to meet Neal in Philadelphia 8 years ago at a book signing. I planned to bring my dog-earred copy of Cryptonomicon to get signed but unfortunately had a family emergeny and missed the signing.

Cryptonomicon. I just finished Cryptonomicon for the 2nd time. This is one of the greatest novels I have ever read. A very fine novelist's finest work.

Superb.. A very well written story, but a little longer than it needed to be. The technologies within are presented with about as good an explanations as one can get, but it will still fry your brain.

If you only ever read one epic. Make it this one. It's masterfully crafted, has multiple deep and interconnected stories, and every one of the myriad characters is memorable. This tome pulls no punches and tells a story spanning nearly an entire century through the eyes of an incredibly diverse cast of characters.

Didn't bother finishing. I have given up on very few books in my 42 years of reading and this was one of them. I have enjoyed previous books by Stephenson, and this book has an interesting premise with a great techno backdrop, but it is sloppily written and the characters are pointless. If I don't care whether the characters live or die, and if I don't believe that they are behaving in a way consistent with their personalities, then why bother finishing the book? I wanted to like it, but never did......

Got me into reading. I'm a 30+ functioning illiterate. I can read, but I've never read for pleasure. This book changed that for me. Yes, the book was dense and long, but I couldn't put it down. Looking forward to reading more of his work.

My (Newest) All-Time Favorite. I re-read books I like. This may puzzle some folks (who probably re-watch TV shows and movies. When I found "Cryptonomicon" on the new book shelf in my library I grabbed it, read it and was captivated! (I should mention that I spent 30+ years working in the computer industry, so I could identify with some (many) of the leading characters.) I've read "Cryptonomicon” 8-10 time, and I enjoy still enjoy it. I just finished it (again). Try it!!!

Classic. All the flaws are there, but still fabulous and better the second time through.

Rarely do. I give a book 5 stars but this sci-fi epic is one of the smartest and most riveting work’s I’ve ever read. I had started it several times but never finished it, it’s 1k plus pages, but I finally got into it and wow. Stephenson’s insight into the future cyber world probably spooked people out 20+ years ago but look how right he predicted the future.

Lengthy and too boring.. For three or four times I have tried to get into that book and finish it but I've constantly failed. Storytelling is way too lengthy. The technology and cryptography stuff really is not Sophisticated. If you are just a little bit tech savvy, You will be bored to death.

A WWII Romp!. Very well written all the way through. But I was confused by much of this book. The whole way through, I thought the book was half a very compelling WWII historical fiction and half a really dull bit set 50 years later about a business venture. Chapters in each timeline are shuffled together like cards in a deck. I was getting frustrated waiting for the two story lines to converge somehow. Every 1998 chapter was a slog because I only wanted to get back to WWII. So the ending disappointed me. Then I read some of the author’s comments in appendices and came to understand that this book is intended to be half about modern cryptology (the boring stuff) and half historical fiction about earlier cryptology (the compelling bit). OK, so I get it now. But I still wish the author would have left off the modern story and stuck to WWII. If you’re a cryptology nut you’re gonna love this book. If you’re not, read it anyway and you’ll get an unusually good story about WWII. And you’ll probably find that even the boring bits are so well written that you don’t really mind reading them too.

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Too long and boring. I quit this book early so this may not be a fair review. Still, I think it's worth saying that this book does not grab and hold a readers' attention. Unless you like verbose descriptions better than dialogue.

One of my favourite, confusing, twisting, turning tech tales!. I like computers. I like spies. I like cryprtography. I like computer security. I like paranoia. I love mysteries that thrill me. ...if you’ve made it this far: Read the book! :-)