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<b>Author:</b> Neal Stephenson</br>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/211959695?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss">See in goodreads</a>
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<h3>Review:</h3>
<p>Well, it's a Neal Stephenson book, so you know a few things before you start reading:<br /><br />1) It's long<br />2) It will contain some memorable passage you will quote to friend and foe alike<br />3) It's populated by characters that possess some sort of motivation, that may or may not make sense to you, but is internally consistent<br />4) It contains incredibly action action scenes<br />5) It will make you think about a thing or two. Or two hundred.<br />6) It's better than 99% of the other books that were published around the same date.<br />7) The ending.... oh, the ending.<br /><br />So, all that is true. Is it as good as Anathem? Or as Cryptonomicon? Yes and no.<br /><br />The author sure seems to have spent a lot of time doing plot. There is a lot of it. Other authors would live 5 or 10 years on this amount of plot.<br /><br />As a Dumas-pére action-packed romp, it's kickass. As a novel full of deep ideas... nah, not this one. For that, get Anathem. It is, however, a page turner, a ton of fun, and yes, really, really good.<br /><br />I recommend it to pretty much anyone over 14, since it contains some stuff that may be a bit too direct for younger readers.</p>
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