Cryptonomicon

 Posted by: ndin | 10/08 2006, 06:04

It has been a while since I was so excited about a book. Yesterday's hunt at PIM's Kinokuniya yielded on an intriguing 1000-page novel that gave me the chills. Never heard about Neal Stephenson before, but I see a lot of potential...

First, in the opening, he quoted Alan Turing. Jumping to the back, there is an appendix explaining the Solitaire encryption algorithm, written by the original author of the algorithm. Managed to churn a few pages of this World War II combined with Internet technology thriller last night and already I am having troubles keeping up with the winding yet cheeky sentences...

This is fun!

 

PS: just got 6 new kittens in the house. One is very stripy cute.. the others are so plain -.-

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5 Responses to “Cryptonomicon”

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api 10/09 2006, 09:26 Say: [Reply]

hmm... sounds like a "compilation novel" hehehe... anything in it dats original?

could u post the kittens?
i want one... :p

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ndin 10/10 2006, 02:47 Say: [Reply]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon

mau? boleh.. tapi jangan yang paling lucu
tapi item-putih semua gitu, pi.. nanti kalo udah melek, deh difoto.. kalo sekarang masih keliatan kaya bola bulu

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kusut 10/10 2006, 04:36 Say: [Reply]

WOW...kittens are the only divine non-mythical creature on earth!!! there is no ordinary kitten :D

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ndin 10/11 2006, 07:35 Say: [Reply]

morning glory, ya?

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sevenohseven 10/16 2006, 19:54 Say: [Reply]

great choice - an excellent book, definitely in my top 10 ever. neal stephenson does a brilliant job of mixing history and fiction into a complex and absorbing work. i'm now reading the first book in his baroque cycle series, which supposedly provides some of the back story to cryptonomicon... so far it's almost as addictive, with the same impressive depth of research. unfortunately don't have that much time to read these days...

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