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Obligatory recommendation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon

• louwrentius 6y ago
  Agreed! Would recommend this book.
  • gruturo 6y ago
    I would recommend it too. It's also one of few Neal Stephenson books in which the ending isn't completely missing or feels too phoned in (beware it IS somewhat unsatisfactory if you wanted more closure). The author unfortunately has a longstanding position where he "doesn't owe the reader a specific type of ending" and the real world doesn't provide textbooks ending either, if I remember correctly. Such a shame because his books are on average excellent until the last 10-20%.
  • kh_hk 6y ago
    I do not! I liked the book, I find parts of it memorable, but I never recommend it as an introduction to Neal Stephenson. Unfortunately, Anathema is also a difficult book to recommend as an introduction.
• mbowcutt 6y ago
  > [The characters'] goal is to facilitate anonymous Internet banking using electronic money and (later) digital gold currency, with a long-term objective to distribute Holocaust Education and Avoidance Pod (HEAP) media for instructing genocide-target populations on defensive warfare. The Holocaust education tidbit caught my eye, there was a Twitter post just a few days ago about using Filecoin to preserve genocide data https://twitter.com/dietrich/status/1258128262615773187 https://twitter.com/dietrich/status/1258128262615773187