(2006-07-14) Walker Loved Cryptonomicon

John Walker finally got around to reading Crypto Nomicon and loved it. This is simply one of the best modern novels I have read in years... he breadth of the topics which figure in this story requires encyclopedic knowledge. which the author demonstrates while making it look effortless, never like he's showing off. Stephenson writes with the kind of universal expertise for which Isaac Asimov was famed, but he's a better writer than the Good Doctor, and that's saying something.