Only 150 pages worthwile... (Score 1)

There's probably 150 pages of good stuff in there, the rest is hardly worth the dead tree pulp and the wasted ink.

For those who "laughed out loud" really need to get out more. Try turning on fortune when you login (not quite the same as human interaction, but a lot funnier than this book).

The crypto stuff is interesting, but so is man pgp. And I can get pgp (er, "ordo") for free, unlike this beastly doorstop Cryptonomicon.

In a nutshell: yawn.