I can't answer that question. I never even tried Cryptonomicron. Having failed to like Snowcrash and failed to even start Diamond Age, I decided that Neal Stephenson enjoyment was something that happened to other people.
...with - for me - the single, shining, eminently rereadable, coarse, crude, engaging, funny, suspenseful, and hardly-SF-at-all exception of Zodiac, of which I just discovered I own two copies. If you lived closer, I'd lend you one.
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I can't answer that question. I never even tried Cryptonomicron. Having failed to like Snowcrash and failed to even start Diamond Age, I decided that Neal Stephenson enjoyment was something that happened to other people.
...with - for me - the single, shining, eminently rereadable, coarse, crude, engaging, funny, suspenseful, and hardly-SF-at-all exception of Zodiac, of which I just discovered I own two copies. If you lived closer, I'd lend you one.