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Please reply your take when you are 99% of the way through
I had the exact same thought. There is no feeling like the frustration of a disappointing ending after being engrossed in a Neal Stephenson book. When they were paper books at least you could throw them across the room. Now that would break my phone.
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It's .. fine. To me NS books are not much about the plot though. I'm floored how many things that guy knows and how creatively he connect them.
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I read it again last year and picked up on a few things that had slipped past my understanding the first time around. I had originally assumed that the present day Enoch Root was the child of Bobby's Nordic girlfriend, but it was obviously not the case upon my second reading. A few web searches revealed the supernatural nature of Root. I always wondered if Stephenson chose the name "Enoch Root" on a dare, or maybe he…
Enoch is a character in multiple biblical stories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_(ancestor_of_Noah) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_(son_of_Cain)
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Serendipitous, I'm also about 75% of the way through! It's one of the most beautiful books I've ever read. Perhaps the most. I very highly recommend it, though I imagine much of HN's audience has done so or is at least aware of it.
Please reply your take when you are 99% of the way through
It's only been some hours, so I'm honestly still processing a lot of it. I'll definitely be rereading it. It's considerably grander in scale than Snow Crash, his only other Novel I've read so far, but I'm quite excited to read his other novels.
Tangent, but Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson[1] is a good novel that touches on WWII cryptography topics really well, going decently mathematically deep into the mechanics of how they work. I'm about 75% of the way through. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon
A great book. If you want to explorer some of the same themes I recommend his Baroque cycle, which carries on with other characters that are the current charecters distant ancestors.