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Review title: Stephenson can't put the pieces together
Product review: Not coming anywhere close to being as good as Stephenson's masterpiece "Snow Crash" nor his excellent "Cryptonomicon," this is a book that's filled with some great ideas that never come together as a decent book. Stephenson frequently seems like he's completely uninterested in telling a good or even readable story, and is more concerned with sounding clever or urbane (i.e. wizened on Eastern culture). There aren't any characters here worth caring about, there's a world that's too complex to bother paying attention to, and a climax that's intense but seems to come out of a separate book.
