![]() I can add, for those fans, that you will finally get the one thing that was lacking in the previous stories: Since Neal Stephenson’s sense of irony and ribaldry has a tendency to put the listener at a slight distance from the characters, enabling us to see them in context and through our historically educated eyes, seeing entire situations with a full appreciation of our knowledge as to what will come next, thus, appreciating the sardonic wit of the author. ![]() There is simply too much to say about this book, so instead, I simply offer that it rounds out the fates and conclusions of all the characters and story lines that that readers of the previous two novels will have come to love and be engrossed by, respectively, in the most satisfying way imaginable. ![]()
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