re: #280 Lynn B.

And at the end of the 4,000 pages … you wish there were more. ;-)

And I usually don’t even like historical fiction. Stephenson is an awesome writer.

Well, I’m done with Cryptonomicon, and at about page 350 in Quicksilver, so I don’t see the end in sight for a while.

When he is writing long dialog sections, he’s as clever as it gets, his narrative is a bit more tedious.

But, you have to tread through the tedious, because there are little gems hidden in there too.

My girlfriend turned me on to his books.