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Title: dull and self important
Review: Plain and simply, this book is a chore to read. The concepts are interesting, but Stephensons digressions into math theory or the minutiae of business start-up planning or the neurosis of post-structuralist academics are overly detailed, self important, and dull. Many of the main characters are not developed. In the case of the nearly autistic math genius Waterhouse, this is perhaps a literary mechanism. In the case of the other characters it is unforgivable. In addition the women in the book are one dimensional, they only exist as objects of sexual interest for the men. So think twice before buying this book.
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