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I did not enjoy it either. Actually I ditched it about 2/3rds of the way when I realized it will never get better.


I unofficially abandoned "Quicksilver" about halfway through. I thought I was the only geek who wasn't enamored with his writing.


I liked "snow crash" and "the diamond age", but found "cryptonomicon" hard to get through, even though it's super popular among geeks. I think even if I ever get to the end of this one, I won't be reading anything from him for a while though.


Zodiac is pretty good. Interface is fun.

I found Reamde frustrating: there were a bunch of different good interesting ideas and plots and they just get dropped to pick up something else, and I wasn't at all interested in the something else.




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