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S'està carregant… Cryptonomicon (1999)de Neal Stephenson
  
» 35 més Best Historical Fiction (138) Favorite Long Books (82) Top Five Books of 2014 (337) Books Read in 2014 (156) Books Read in 2017 (410) Five star books (376) One Book, Many Authors (120) Books Read in 2013 (330) Books Read in 2007 (77) SantaThing 2014 Gifts (169) Fiction For Men (58) World War II Novels (13) Useful Spy Books (1) Ocean Setting (8) Asia (146) Libertarian Books (98) Unread books (863) No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra.   ) knerd.knitter | Nov 10, 2023 |  While over a thousand pages, I didn't feel like I was wading through any filler chapters. In my experience every page was either dedicated to character development, explanation of a (cryptographic) concept or progressing the story. While I spent almost 4 months reading Cryptonomicon, it never felt like work, which can often be the case with such large books. It did sometimes look like the story was being led around so that Stephenson could cram in another cryptography concept, which did make the main story feel superficial at times, but in my opinion the strength of this book lies in these concepts, so it rarely bothered me. What did bother me was Randy "Freaking" Waterhouse. Given that more of his characters do not view the world in the same way, I guess I don't think Stephenson holds the same view, but my annoyances with Randy did deter from my enthusiasm about this book somewhat. The only other thing that was somewhat disappointing was the absence of Elizebeth and William Friedman, whom I had recently read about, but this is hardly a criticism. All in all, I really liked this tome and I am actually very curious towards the Baroque Cycle. Also, after reading Snow Crash, I was hardly enthusiastic about Neal Stephenson, but this book was very impressive and I do not doubt that I will be reading more of his books. (  )1  bramboomen | Oct 18, 2023 | It's got math, computer geek humour, cryptography, war history and commentary on everything from academia to the Far East - and all of it done in an over the top, you gotta be there to believe it style that's fun and entertaining. It's a slow read, because you just don't want to miss anything, and everything including the kitchen sink shows up on almost every page. Don't blink! Once I was a couple of hundred pages into this book I knew I'd love it. At around the five hundred page mark it was shaping up to be one of my top ten favourites of all time. Funny thing happened on the way to the finish though - it got close to being a little too much. It could be that my reading was in much smaller chunks for the last couple hundred pages, but for whatever reason it lost some of it's sparkle. It finishes strong, but stumbled just enough to end up a solid four and a half stars instead of an all out five. And that's only because I don't give up fives easily. Heck, maybe on re-reading I'll bump it that half point. Make sure you read it, and see just how high up the chart you'll rate it. ( ) furicle | Aug 5, 2023 |  ) Ranjr | Jul 13, 2023 |  ) sgsmitty | Jun 14, 2023 |
 You'd think such a web of narratives would be hard to follow. Certainly, it's difficult to summarize. But Stephenson, whose science-fiction novels Snow Crash (1992) and The Diamond Age (1995) have been critical and commercial successes despite difficult plotting, has made a quantum jump here as a writer. In addition to his bravura style and interesting authorial choices (Stephenson tells each of his narratives in the present tense, regardless of when they occur chronologically), the book is so tightly plotted that you never lose the thread. But Stephenson is not an author who's content just to tell good stories. Throughout the book, he takes on the task of explaining the relatively abstruse technical disciplines surrounding cryptology, almost always in ways that a reasonably intelligent educated adult can understand. As I read the book I marked in the margins where Stephenson found opportunities to explain the number theory that underlies modern cryptography; "traffic analysis" (deriving military intelligence from where and when messages are sent and received, without actually decoding them); steganography (hiding secret messages within other, non-secret communications); the electronics of computer monitors (and the security problems created by those monitors); the advantages to Unix-like operating systems compared to Windows or the Mac OS; the theory of monetary systems; and the strategies behind high-tech business litigation. Stephenson assumes that his readers are capable of learning the complex underpinnings of modern technological life. Pertany a aquestes col·leccions editorialsContingut aConté
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HTML: Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that shaped this century. In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse - mathematical genius and young Captain in the U.S. Navy - is assigned to Detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt. The mission of Waterhouse and Detachment 2702 - commanded by Marine Raider Bobby Shaftoe - is to keep the Nazis ignorant of the fact that Allied Intelligence has cracked the enemy's fabled Enigma code. It is a game, a cryptographic chess match between Waterhouse and his German counterpart, translated into action by the gung-ho Shaftoe and his forces. Fast-forward to the present, where Waterhouse's crypto-hacker grandson, Randy, is attempting to create a "data haven" in Southeast Asia - a place where encrypted data can be stored and exchanged free of repression and scrutiny. As governments and multinationals attack the endeavor, Randy joins forces with Shaftoe's tough-as-nails granddaughter, Amy, to secretly salvage a sunken Nazi submarine that holds the key to keeping the dream of a data haven afloat. But soon their scheme brings to light a massive conspiracy, with its roots in Detachment 2702, linked to an unbreakable Nazi code called Arethusa. And it will represent the path to unimaginable riches and a future of personal and digital liberty...or to universal totalitarianism reborn. A breathtaking tour de force, and Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon is profound and prophetic, hypnotic and hyper-driven, as it leaps forward and back between World War II and the World Wide Web, hinting all the while at a dark day-after-tomorrow. It is a work of great art, thought, and creative daring. .No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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