This should be the end of the book acquisitions for a while.

[tenlittlebullets]

Took some of my dad's hardcovers off his hands today--thaaaat's another two or three more shelves, mostly nonfiction, about half WWII history. Lots of cryptography and espionage stuff. Dad thinks I'm going to end up working for the NSA.

Speaking of which, where the fuck is my copy of Cryptonomicon? I swear to god that all my Neal Stephenson novels disappear sooner or later. My brother borrowed Snow Crash and never gave it back, my dad borrowed Diamond Age and only just gave it back in the giant bookdump, mmejavert borrowed the Baroque Cycle and will hopefully give it back but it takes six months to read the damn thing, and now Cryptonomicon is missing. Granted, I am rather evangelical about lending out my Neal Stephenson, but that is because Neal Stephenson is awesome and writes geekfic on steroids, and I want my books back so I can pimp them out to more people. (Kind of like Mark Steel--I swear I ought to have a reading copy and a lending copy of Vive la Révolution.)

Now I just need to decide what to read next.

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[mmejavert.livejournal.com]

Oh don't worry, you'll get them back. :D (Is the reason I designated a special corner of my bureau for the books you lent me...) And if you can't find Cryptonomicon by the time I do, you can have my copy. I've never looked at it and if I don't read it by the time I'm done with the Baroque Cycle, I probably never will.