Amanda Hilburn

I found it excessively verbose, even pompous. This book was trying so hard. It'll make a hacker/"cyberpunk," sort of person with a big ego cream themselves. I mostly found this book pretty obnoxious and clunky to get through. The year that is was written might be a major factor that contributed to what felt like a raging ego in this book--Stephenson certainly may have been writing out what he imagined for the future and got a little too into it--but really. The writing was just being obnoxious. Reminds me of a saying from a video about a certain author taking an entire paragraph to talk about a tree branch. Difference is with Stephenson is he tries so hard, it's really annoying. Pleonastic, garrulous writing that reads as desperate. Had a plot I could at least follow. 2.5, rounding up to 3 to be nice.