opfprimo.blogg.se - Cryptonomicon book

Subjects such as the Holocaust (and how to prevent genocide), the nature of love, war, peace, secrecy, how families work and the relationship of individual values to different cultures. Deep - Stephenson has thoughts on some big subjects, and they are laced throughout Cryptonomicon.Many of the main characters are brilliant mathematicians or computer programmers. Another is the early development of computers These are geeky subjects. Geeky - One of the main foci of Cryptonomicon is codes.Stephenson’s portrayal of certain aspects of modernist academic thought is also hysterical. Stephenson includes, for example, a long passage on the correct way to eat Captain Crunch cereal (including where the milk should be stored in the refrigerator and what size spoon should be used).

Funny - there are a lot of humorous bits in Cryptonomicon.

But the main historical person in Cryptonomicon is Alan Turing

There’s a brief but hysterical cameo appearance by a very young Ronald Reagan a not at all funny cameo by Herman Goering and several mentions of Winston Churchill and Admiral Yamamoto. It has a dozen major characters and scores of minor characters (including some historical people.

Complicated - Cryptonomicon has 3 plot lines, set in two different time periods (late 20th century and World War II).

But rather than tell you about the plot, I am structuring this review a little differently. Along the way, Cryptonomicon covers many subjects including codes, genocide, prejudice, cryptocurrencies, war and more. It begins with a Marine writing haiku while on the running board of a careening jeep.