Mar 162005
I’ve picked up this book and not bought it at least a dozen times, but last Thursday, I had 5 minutes in a used bookstore. I had to get enough books to get me through yesterday when all our stuff arrived. So I bought it.
I like Stephenson’s writing style and his sense of humor. This isn’t as rich and complex as the System of the World series or Cryptonomicon, but it does play with multiple, interwoven storylines that link history and the present in interesting ways. My biggest disappointment was that I felt the ending was abrupt and not up to the standard of the rest of the book.
