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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gizzard" data-source="post: 989772" data-attributes="member: 527">I enjoyed this quite a bit.  I'd read other books, including some that were important in the field, but none reads as easily and is as much fun as The Code Book.  I picked it up after reading Cryptonomicon: Also a fun book.  Its huge and I know a couple people who couldn't get through it, but really enjoyed Stephenson's view of the world.  I complained bitterly about the digressions in KSRs The Years of Rice and Salt, but the digressions in Crytonomicon were some of my favorite parts.  I do think that it might have been an even better book if the author had sacrificed one of the three parallel plots and tightened up the remaining two.  As for me, I just finished Paul di Fillipio's A Year in the Linear City which I enjoyed.  Its a different kettle of fish than Coraline which is one of its competitors in the Novella catagory this year.  I probably give the nod to Coraline because thats got a strong thread of plot, whereas A Year... is much more a meandering visit to a very strange place.  On a practical note, A Year... comes from a small press publisher and, AFAIK, only 800 were printed.  So don't expect to find it at your local B&N.  I have no idea how it made the ballot with such a small print run.-edit- I really like MacLeod's stuff.  I didn't know he had a novel out, I'll have to go look for it.</blockquote>