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An excellent book with an ending I couldn’t quite get behind. Basically it has a surface level and a deeper level. On the surface it is a cyberpunk story. The main characters are a sword-weidling pizza delivery guy who works for a Mafia owned franchise which has many of the rights of a sovereign state, and a teenage skater who works as a courier, using a magnetic harpoon to get lifts along highways, and an almost magical skateboard ot get herself out of trouble. In their spare time, both seem to
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some cartoonishly funny/clever ideas mired in an overlong narrative that falls back on genre tropes. this could have been a reasonably enjoyable 200 page novel, but stephenson needed a Hollywood action sequence complete with a super cringe sex scene to close out for some reason.
Ok, so for a book that I barely had any idea what was going on, I really like it! LOL!
May 15, 2011
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