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Title: Waste of time
Review: I have read a lot of Stephenson. I expected a bit more from him on this one. The story is choppy and piecemeal. He regularly goes off on worthless tangents which provide nothing to the story. The characters are not at all believable, nor consistent nor well supported by background detail. At one point a character dies then magically reappears later in the story. Then there's this bad guy who shows up in the middle of jungle in a suit and tie and no real reason to be there to wreak havoc and invent some real conflict in this slow moving waste of a book.SKIP THIS ONE!!!
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