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Cryptonomicon. ReviewThis is a book of ideas disguised as a superb picaresque adventure novel -- incidentally interwoven with the loosely connected sagas of three families. Hilariously funny, outrageous, erudite, profane, and very, very, very smart. Consider:
* Corporal Bobby Shaftoe, the WW2 Marine who writes haikus and practices the "chop-socky" he learned from a Japanese soldier -- when he's not screwing women, shooting morphine, killing "Nips", or engaged in an incomprehensible effort to protect the greatest Allied military secret of the War.
* Goto Dengo, the mining engineer turned Nipponese soldier who learns to pitch baseballs from Bobby Shaftoe in exchange for teaching judo and haiku to Bobby in Shanghai, before the war. Dengo's war is complicated by jungle, atrocity, malnutrition, disease, incompetence in the Japanese Army High Command, and a crisis of conscience, culminating in a commission to build an impregnable and unfindable treasure chamber for "strategic war materials" in the wilds of the Phillipine bundoks -- on completion of which, he is ordered to kill himself and his crew.
* Lawrence Waterhouse, the musically gifted mathematician friend of Alan Turing, who flunked out of college because he was too bright -- then goes on to work on the Purple (here called "Indigo") and Enigma decryption projects and to provide mathematically motivated direction for the counterintelligence activities that protect those projects from the Axis.
* Randy Waterhouse, grandson of Lawrence, computer nerd and networking guru, who, with his old gaming buddy Avi (great-great-something-grandson of Moshe de la Cruz in Stevenson's Baroque Cycle books), starts a high-tech networking company to build a cryptographically secure, private, government-resistant, Internet data haven with a reliable and untraceable currency to support it, all aimed at (among other things) preventing future Holocausts -- and backed by a hoard of Axis war gold.
* America (Amy) Shaftoe, daughter of Douglas MacArthur Shaftoe and granddaughter of Bobby Shaftoe -- the multilingual treasure diver who captures Randy's heart.
* Enoch Root, the German/Australian Catholic missionary who begins WW2 as a covert radio listener and ends as chaplain to Bobby Shaftoe's peculiar Division 2702 on missions to "widen the bell curve" and add wierdness to the war. Strangely unaged a half-century later, Enoch introduces Randy Waterhouse to a cryptosystem called Pontifex -- and the information needed to crack the once "uncrackable" Arethusa code, which Randy discovered in a trunk in his grandfather's attic.
Plus a cast of thousands, each with their own intricate web of adventures, and each with a life that expresses a human point of view towards the realities of cryptography, computing, networking, information, money, freedom, responsibility, duty, human nature, and the Internet.
The best book I've ever read, bar none. I've read all 900-plus pages at least ten times, and it gets better each time.Cryptonomicon. Overview

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