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Saucy White Boy
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Which books of his exactly are worth reading?
A while back I picked up Cryptonomicon on a recomendation and couldn't finish it. Some of the encryption stuff was interesting but I thought his characters and plot were very weak. Immature would almost be the word to describe it. The situations felt like something a nerdy 17 year old boy would contrive if he were plotting a novel... Turned me off.
The book seemed like a poor-man's V.
Well, he never rises above top quality pulp fiction, but Snow Crash is pretty clearly his best work, followed by Diamond Age and Cryptonomicon. Everything he's written since then has been bloated and dull.
In the Beginning was the Command Line is an interesting polemic along the lines of "information wants to be free."