Re: I don't understand Neal Stephenson's books

In article <877iehn5jh.fsf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Mark Jeffcoat  <jeffcoat@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Enoch Root is likely a little less jarring if you've read
>Stephenson's previous novel, _Cryptonomicon_.

Oh.

Hmmm...

I haven't read "The Baroque Cycle", but I have read and
enjoyed "Cryptonomicon." Enoch Root was something of an odd
character. I was thinking, in the 21st century parts of the
story where he finally shows up that Root really should be
quite a bit older than that. I don't recall catching on to
any indication that he was an immortal, other than that.

The other thing that bother me was that there's no way,
even if your last name is "Root", that anyone but the
system administrator is ever going to have an email address
"root@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" This was something of a plot point; the
21st century protagnoist assumed he was the sysadmin, and
was about as surprised as I was that he was not. But still.

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