It’s probably the longest book I’ve read that I didn’t particularly care for. What kept me going was the intermittent amusing cryptographic or engineering digre

It’s probably the longest book I’ve read that I didn’t particularly care for. What kept me going was the intermittent amusing cryptographic or engineering digression. You can tell which places Stephenson visited during his research, because he’ll describe them in great detail, like the business district of some city in the Philippines. It gets a little better as it goes along, but I’m not sure I’d recommend it.