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The 3 magnum works of Neal Stephenson: Cryptonomicon, Baroque and Anathem have each some core concepts and a lot of adventure to carry forward the books. Since the core concepts take quite a lot of the books, if they do not captivate/interest you, the books may get a bit tedious
Cryptonomicon has cryptography and hacking with WW2 and contemporary treasure hunt as adventures.
Baroque has the beginning of institutional science and the origin of modern banking/money with pirates, Dumas style intrigue and England's internal conflicts and external wars against King Louie as adventure
Anathem has the nature of consciousness, the multiverse and the nature of reality with campus and beyond adventures a la Harry Potter
I've read them in inverse order of publication since the topics of Anathem are at the core of my interests and why I read sf and science/natural philospohy, the topics of Baroque are of some interest but I liked a lot the Dumas style intrigue and the topics of Cryptonomicon are of no interest to me so I fast read through it a lot
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