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Title: Talk about overblown!
Review: This book is fine. Nothing spectacular about it. Those who have compared Stephenson's now more digressive style to Pynchon or Dilillo are either big fans of Stephenson, or are intentionally denegrating postmodernism. This book reads like any other long and well researched piece of genre fiction. Comparisons to Clancy are apt. It's unlikely that anyone will be dazzled by Stephenson's wit or his genius, though they may eventually be bored by his plodding and repetitive and relatively simplistic style. I wish this book had lived up to it's press. We need another Great American Author -- unfortunately Stephenson isn't it.
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