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Mar. 27th, 2008 04:00 pmSo because I am a genius, and I always seem to pick up the massive books to read when I am just finishing a quarter and starting to dive into work, or just ending a quarter and surrounded in finals, I spent most of my finals week reading Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon.
Cryptonomicon has a very complex plot that follows multiple storylines across two timelines. In the World War II era, codebreaker Lawrence Waterhouse attempts to keep the Axis powers from discovering the failure of their strongest code Enigma, while Marine Bobby Shaftoe becomes caught up in a number of the complex plans surrunding those codes. Randy Waterhouse, fifty years later, gets entangled with the fallout from those events while helping his friend Avi set up a data haven in the Philippines.
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Cryptonomicon has a very complex plot that follows multiple storylines across two timelines. In the World War II era, codebreaker Lawrence Waterhouse attempts to keep the Axis powers from discovering the failure of their strongest code Enigma, while Marine Bobby Shaftoe becomes caught up in a number of the complex plans surrunding those codes. Randy Waterhouse, fifty years later, gets entangled with the fallout from those events while helping his friend Avi set up a data haven in the Philippines.
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