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Title: not so intoxicating
Review: Hats off to those who persevered for 300+ pages before giving this dud up. I only lasted 53 pages, or until I got to this zinger of sentence: "Randy used to be fascinated by software, but now he isn't." Oh, the tension. Stephenson attempts to write a cross-generational, wide-reaching tome of Pynchon-esque proportions, but misses by a wide, wide mark. And then, after basing his title on the work of the great H.P. Lovecraft (Necronomicon), he admits to never having read H.P.L.!?! The cover blurb of my borrowed (and soon to be returned) copy quotes the Washington Post Book World: "Intoxicating." Perhaps it should read Intoxication required. Despite all the glowing reviews here, my recommendation is skip this book.
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