The Pleasure Principle

A productive morning ironing, dusting all those hidden nooks and crannies that quietly gather dust unseen, and purging clutter. Also uploaded all my Talking Heads and NIN CDs onto the Sony Walkman.

Relaxed for a couple of hours at the beach with my latest. Because the last book I read, Neal Stephenson's Seveneves, was so amazing, I decided to buy Cryptonomicon. It is utterly engrossing. It's really three stories in one; two set during World War Two concerning code breaking (Alan Turing makes a few appearances), and one about laying cables for the birth of the internet. At over 1,100 pages, there is plenty of time for fascinating digressions about all manner of subjects, from dentistry to cryptography, industrial saws to staple designs, bicycle chain mechanisms to pipe laying. I have already decided that my next read will be Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver: Vol.1 of The Baroque Cycle.