i'm reading it right now. i had a dear friend who was completely unable to slog through it, which kept me away for too long. Stephenson is a friend of a friend, and sometime i'm going to run into him, so i thought i should try.
i was hooked by Bobby's attempts at haiku on the first page :) i also think Ultra and the windtalkers (dunno if they show up anywhere in the book) are the most fascinating bits of WWII history.
i'm 400+ pages in. if you don't like it at 100, you won't like it after that.
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Date: 2005-07-08 04:09 pm (UTC)i was hooked by Bobby's attempts at haiku on the first page :)
i also think Ultra and the windtalkers (dunno if they show up anywhere in the book) are the most fascinating bits of WWII history.
i'm 400+ pages in. if you don't like it at 100, you won't like it after that.