| 11. |  | Interface
from Spectra
Price: $10.20
Customer Review:
Earlier reviewers are correct to observe that this is not Neal Stephenson at his finest; the book needed an editor's eye (especially in the last third) to pick up repetition at the sentence level--still, the events in the US 2008 presidential campaign have made this book amazingly apt, and much... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 12. |  | The Cobweb
from Spectra
Price: $10.20
Customer Review:
It is the eve of the first US war with Iraq. Tensions are mounting, but the US still supports Saddam Hussein.
In a sleepy Midwestern town, a foreign student is murdered. Something about the case bothers Deputy Sheriff Clyde Banks, whose best weapon is not his nightstick Excalibur, but his brain... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 13. |  | The Big U
from Harper Perennial
Price: $11.24
Customer Review:
The Big U is the first and least of Stephenson's novels. But if it ultimately fails to cohere, that's only because it was an ambitious attempt--with themes and a voice that Stephenson's fans will recognize from his later work. | 3.5 / 5.0
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| 14. |  | Odalisque: The Baroque Cycle #3
from HarperTorch
Price: $7.99
Customer Review:
Contrary to the conspiracy-minded people below, this wasn't released this way as a cheap marketing trick. Mass market paperbacks are always more pages than their hardcover versions. Unfortunately, the hardcover version of the Baroque Cycle is already 1000 pages long. That would have made the mass... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 15. |  | King of the Vagabonds: The Baroque Cycle #2
from HarperTorch
Price: $7.99
Customer Review:
It's apt that one of the titles in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle is The Confusion, because that's what the numbers in the set produce. I read Quicksilver first, then The Confusion, which is subtitled Baroque Cycle #2--but actually this book (King of the Vagabonds) should be next, as it gives the... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 16. |  | Quicksilver: The Baroque Cycle #1
from HarperTorch
Price: $7.99
Customer Review:
Don't be confused, if you've already bought the original Quicksilver, you needn't buy this, this is a mass market paperback of the first book, in the first book of the Baroque Cycle (confusing, but oh well). I actually appreciated the chance to buy a cheaper mmp of the first book to see if I liked... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 17. | ![]() | SPSS Manual: for Introduction to the Practice of Statistics 4e
from W. H. Freeman
Customer Review:
I thought it was ok because the guide did not have all of the odd problems worked out. Usually a study has all the odd problems answered. Without it, you are left wondering if the guide has an explanation at all for the problem.
When the it does have the answers, it explains it very well and... more info | 3.0 / 5.0
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| 18. |  | Cryptonomicon.
from Goldmann
Customer Review:
This 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... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 19. | ![]() | Cryptonomicon
from SOLD
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| 20. |  | Cryptonomicon
from Arrow Books Ltd
Customer Review:
Love the transport in time to the precusor's to IPSec and AES encryption, just not using a VPN connection. If you like encryption, World War II, anti-hero's and a really thick book, this is your cup of tea. | 5.0 / 5.0
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