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An excellent addition to my favourite book list

Advantages: A big, thick, thought-provoking and challenging read
Disadvantages: Might be to much for some people

This is a real gem of a book, weighing in at a hefty 918 pages for a mere £8.99. The thing that surprised me most of all was just how much ground Stephenson manages to cover. The plot is set in two time zones, World War 2 and the present day. Some of the ...

jambo6 14.12.2000 · Read full review
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Review of Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson

You need to read this book

Advantages: Fine, enjoyable read which stimulates and informs
Disadvantages: Maybe too long for some

This is easily the best book I've read so far this year. You know the kind, one that brings feeling s of disappoinment as the end nears. I wanted it to go on for at least a couple of hundred pages past the 900 provided. It is written in the same vein ...

Khanivor 21.09.2000 · Read full review
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Review of Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson

The Geek shall inherit the earth

Advantages: Nothing else out there comes close
Disadvantages: Nothing else out there comes close

This is Stephenson's masterwork. Forget Snow Crash and Zodiac (both good but not in this league - and, for my money, pass by The Diamond Age), this book sprawls across continents, drips nerd humour, history, cryptography and conspiracy theory from its eve ...

oedipus 16.01.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson

Book the series was based on

Advantages: Good concept for a story
Disadvantages: Didn't understand it all

Flashfoward by Robert J Sawyer is the original book that the popular tv series with the same name was based on. I had watched the first season of the series when I got the book for Christmas and wasnt going to start reading it until I had finished watchi ...

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Review of Flash Forward - Robert J. Sawyer

Very different to the TV show, but I think that was a good thing.

Advantages: good science, explained well, great story and characters
Disadvantages: science is accurate, but some may find hard to follow, a bit short

I have always been a big fan of the written word over the visual, and in my experience many a film or TV show has spoiled the book that is is based upon. I watched the TV series 'Flashforward' when it was on channel 5 a couple of years back, and was blow ...

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Review of Flash Forward - Robert J. Sawyer