P1030680: Unbroken Enigma message (U534, 01 May 1945)

Re:P1030680: Unbroken Enigma message (U534, 01 May 1945) by andyjohnson0 on Monday June 26, 2023 @04:11PM (#36485169)

I read it back in the day. I can't remember much of the plot, but i do remember that it seemed about twice as long as it needed to be. Which I find ro be typical of Stephenson's fiction. Plenty of people seem to like it though.

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Re:P1030680: Unbroken Enigma message (U534, 01 May 1945) by sleepybrett on Monday June 26, 2023 @04:19PM (#36485257)

He does like regressions into historical causes and effect chains... hell the whole system of the world trilogy is almost nothing BUT that (and contains some character/family crossovers with cryptonomicon)

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Re:P1030680: Unbroken Enigma message (U534, 01 May 1945) by buildbot on Monday June 26, 2023 @04:16PM (#36485224)

Less so than his later books in my opinion. It’s a lot of great plot throughout with good explanations of the math concepts it refers to.

I may be biased, After reading wheel of time, nothing seems too long anymore!

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Re:P1030680: Unbroken Enigma message (U534, 01 May 1945) by wkat4242 on Monday June 26, 2023 @06:14PM (#36486601)

I liked it but I thought it was overly dramatic in a "survival of the fittest" way and indeed way too long. But I'm not a fan of the guy anyway.

It is a decent book to read once though.

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