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Title: gustav8191
Review: Having read so many complaints about the book's ending, I feel compelled to throw in my own two cents (without giving anything away). I thought the very ending-- with the symbolic and poetic power of its final image, with its resonance with (and contrast to) the claustrophobic secrecy of the whole book up to that point-- as well as a further development of the Lord of the Rings resonance-- was beautiful.Not the greatest book I've ever read; it certainly pales compared to Gravity's Rainbow (which this book feels like, at least for the first half). But make no mistake-- Stephenson knew exactly what he was doing with the ending!
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