Comments on: I Finished Cryptonomicon http://blog.vromans.com/i-finished-cryptonomicon Independent Bookstore Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:23:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: Alessandro Cima http://blog.vromans.com/i-finished-cryptonomicon/comment-page-1#comment-4700 Alessandro Cima Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:49:40 +0000 http://blog.vromans.com/?p=971#comment-4700 I had major trouble getting through Cryptonomicon also. It covered many months for me, with ten or tweleve other books completed during the same stretch. I find the book irritating as hell. Goto Dengo is the best character. The entire novel heats up in the last third as his situation becomes more dangerous. But the book is so full of repetitious scenes and conversations that go nowhere. Everyone in the book tries to talk smart all the time. All the time. The characters all have smart man disease. Actually, I threw the novel in the trash at one point because it's so poorly written. But then I felt bad, retrieved it and finished it. But Stephenson is a very bad writer. Just an abomination. He can hardly write a coherent scene. I think he should write a book in which every single character is stupid and utters only the most banal of comments. If you want an even worse book than this one, just try Anathem. Oh my goodness, that might be the single worst book I have read in twenty years. I had major trouble getting through Cryptonomicon also. It covered many months for me, with ten or tweleve other books completed during the same stretch. I find the book irritating as hell. Goto Dengo is the best character. The entire novel heats up in the last third as his situation becomes more dangerous.

But the book is so full of repetitious scenes and conversations that go nowhere. Everyone in the book tries to talk smart all the time. All the time. The characters all have smart man disease. Actually, I threw the novel in the trash at one point because it’s so poorly written. But then I felt bad, retrieved it and finished it. But Stephenson is a very bad writer. Just an abomination. He can hardly write a coherent scene.

I think he should write a book in which every single character is stupid and utters only the most banal of comments.

If you want an even worse book than this one, just try Anathem. Oh my goodness, that might be the single worst book I have read in twenty years.

]]> By: Judy Krueger http://blog.vromans.com/i-finished-cryptonomicon/comment-page-1#comment-4643 Judy Krueger Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:22:16 +0000 http://blog.vromans.com/?p=971#comment-4643 Hi Patrick, I hope you have visited my blog and seen all the pretty book covers that you taught me how to download and post. Thanks again. Really I am leaving this comment because I am a drooling Neal Stephenson fan. I even fought my way through the author lunch at BEA last year and was rude to his publicist, just so I could gush and all that. I found Cryptonomicon the most fun of maybe any book I've read. You are right; it is heavy to carry around and takes a LOOONG time to read, but who cares? I read Quicksilver, the first of his trilogy and it is also great but lately I can't figure out how to find time to read the other two. Am I getting like those Twitter people? Even though I don't Twitter? Thanks for bringing back a fabulous reading memory. Hi Patrick,
I hope you have visited my blog and seen all the pretty book covers that you taught me how to download and post. Thanks again.

Really I am leaving this comment because I am a drooling Neal Stephenson fan. I even fought my way through the author lunch at BEA last year and was rude to his publicist, just so I could gush and all that. I found Cryptonomicon the most fun of maybe any book I’ve read. You are right; it is heavy to carry around and takes a LOOONG time to read, but who cares? I read Quicksilver, the first of his trilogy and it is also great but lately I can’t figure out how to find time to read the other two. Am I getting like those Twitter people? Even though I don’t Twitter?

Thanks for bringing back a fabulous reading memory.

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