Negative Positive
Title: really liked his previous work
Review: such as Zodiac (a little rough, but his first novel), Snowcrash and the Diamond Age. I have re-read Snowcrash twice and The Diamond Age 4 times.Struggled through this one, hoping that eventually it would start to have some sort of cohesion that would bring it all together. Never happened for me. I did enjoy some of the details and side tangents, but they never really factored into any of the story threads.Finally finished it and then realized that around 200-300 pages in I had the insight that it was not really going to go anywhere - should have gone with that and abandoned at that point. And yes, I am a computer geek/professional with interests in encryption so it should have been a rewarding read. No dice.
Is the review positive or negative? 