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Neal Stephenson: Cryptonomicon (Paperback, 2000, Harper Perennial) 4 stars

E-book extras: "Stephensonia/Cryptonomica": ONE: "Cryptonomicon Cypher-FAQ" (Neal addresses "Frequently Anticipated Questions" and other fascinating facts); …

Review of 'Cryptonomicon' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

I have given up halfway through this one, the overwhelming "bro-ness" of it is just too much for me. Every woman is assessed in terms of f**kability, every non-white (male or female) is a bundle of hackneyed caricatures, and every non-Western place is quaintly bizarre, and most of the time it's just played for "laughs." Not enough of this POV narrator's nonsense is accounted for by the two-thirds of the book that follows members of the Greatest Generation. If anything, the modern characters are the worst ones. To his credit, there are many laugh-out-loud moments of humor, and the glimpses of WWII battles are what got me this far. I don't know anything about GamerGate but I imagine this is their type of SF writer.