Posts tagged “Neal Stephenson”
Cryptonomicon
I finished reading Cryptonomicon a few weeks ago. I really love Neal Stephenson, and I stayed up late far too many nights reading Cryptonomicon. As much as I enjoyed the book, I was again disappointed by Stephenson’s female characters. The comments here do a good job of laying out some of the issues. My biggest […]
Living with roommates
From Neal Stephenson’s Zodiac: They shut off our phone service so we all had to sit down and thrash out about three months’ worth of unpaid long-distance bills. In the middle of a spirited discussion of who had made seven consecutive calls to Santa Cruz at three in the morning, Ike got up and announced […]