3 stars is too low, but 4 is a little bit too high, this is a 3.5 if I ever read one.

I never really got into the story the way I expected to. The story has everything I think I should want, and some more stuff on top of that, but none of it hit home for me the same way stories like Ready Player One, or movies like Tron have done.

I think that none of the characters were really likeable enough for me to really care about them. I'm not sure if that's the story, or the reading of the audiobook I listened to.

The book is definitely suffering because I finished Cryptonomicon directly before reading this. I think that book trumps this one in every way. The audiobook reading is better, too.

I'm going to give Neal Stephenson books a break for a while, and then probably go for the Baroque Cycle.