neal stephenson books

[rmd]

i finally finished "system of the world" the other day (the third of the brick-like baroque cycle trilogy).

then i had to go skim through "cryptonomicon" again, because several of the really peculiar things in cryptonomicon are explained or at least informed by the baroque books.

overall, a fun set of books. i was loving the random historical cruft, so i didn't mind that stephenson seems to have tried to shoehorn all the historical trivia into the books.

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[rmd.livejournal.com]

the baroque books do explain what the gold punchcards in the submarine in cryptonomicon are. :-)