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Cryptonomicon
- Narrated by: William Dufris
- Length: 42 hrs and 44 mins
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Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that shaped this century.
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- Tatiana Brusyanina
- 04-04-2017
could not finish...
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I was not able to finish the book, nor even get to the middle of it....It's very slow, full of various very thorough descriptions, numbers, codes...and it was difficult to follow the storyline of each character as i would forget what was happening with them in the previous chapters when the author mentioned them... Somebody probably enjoys this kind of detailed stories...Not sure if i get back to this book to continue reading...
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- Sam
- 19-07-2016
One of Neal Stephenson's best.
I've read this book on paper more than once, and listened to the audiobook twice. It's a great story, paced well and with interesting characters. Listeners will probably learn a little about topics that include cryptography, history, SE Asian geography and the (heavily fictionalised) history of modern computing. A highly entertaining, thinking person's adventure novel.
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- Mick Poole
- 10-12-2020
epic
excellent story, great characters, didn't want it to end. Have loved all his books as audio. excellent productions.
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- Chiel Groeneveld
- 08-02-2023
William Dufris is amazing.
Now I'll leave the review of the book to people much better equipped to do so, but in short this comfort infodump of a book is right up my alley and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
But the narrator, William Dufris is absolutely amazing and makes this listen even more enjoyable. He got the characters and voices pat down, so that when he starts talking in a new chapter, the person speaking doesn't have to be introduced. You know who he is.
I've started downloading books now because he is narrating them.
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- Jen le fay
- 03-06-2016
Wonderfully mathematical entwined yarn
This book proves heart and maths can coexist, something a diehard nerd like myself already knew but rarely see blossoming in the outside world. Well worth a read for nerds and literary types. Makes me want to understand both the Second World War and number theory at greater depth.
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- Anonymous User
- 13-05-2021
That was fun.
There's just to much to say.
Thoughtful, suprisingly romantic at times, entertaining for the most part, it's long, which can be daunting but is so very rewarding.
I saw other reviews about math being prevalent, there's only a couple of minutes of actually number talk over the 40 hours.
also as usual William Dufris, is just flawless.
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- Nick Upton
- 20-12-2022
Wow
If you like history, science and a perfectly timed humor you must listen to this book. At 42 hour long I still found myself wanting more, Truly excellent!
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- sandra darling
- 30-12-2022
Brilliant, moving
I absolutely loved this story, the heroism of the ww1 men and the ingenious modern men. Who would have thought math could be so interesting?
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- Rhiannon
- 09-12-2016
Neil Stevenson is a genius
My all time favourite novel. Such a phenomenal mind, and eclectic mix of science&history. Brilliant!
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- Ellen Johnston
- 28-09-2016
360 degree story
a bit to much mathematical detail for my taste, but otherwise very entertaining. liked it a lot!
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