adventure

I remember when books used to be about adventure. Tintin goes to Tibet, the Famous Five go to Kirrin Island, the Hardy Boys go off to some mountain where they get knocked out cold by the regulation henchman, even Nancy Drew would find some haunted mansion to wander round and get locked up in... going back even further , the Rat and the Mole would go on picnics ,boating on the river, with baskets of food, and so did the three men and their dog.
Alice dropped into a magical world one boring afternoon and Rudolph Rassendyl switched places with the king of a distant land.
From the other side, there's the island where the ships built by children end up, with the ship museum on Vetrogorsk, and the magic carpet, and kvass at Arbat street...
Then there was Robinson Crusoe , and the three on Coral Island , and the Swiss family Robinson, and then there was Jim Hawkins on the Hispaniola.

Seriously, what happened ....

I read Cryptonomicon at a time when I was trapped into a socio-economic-cultural phenomenon which was drinking out my soul in great gulps. Wavelength is such an important and undocumented word..