I can't say that I enjoyed this book as much as The Confusion, but it's certainly Stephenson's most accessible book. It's essentially a 1000-page action movie, complete with a globe-trotting cast of Chinese hackers, Islamic terrorists, secret agents, laconic Russians, and portly Hungarians. The ending gets a little random at times (I honestly wonder if Stephenson has played Red Dead Redemption; the role of random cougar attacks certainly reminded me of the game) but it doesn't detract from the quality of the novel as a whole.