Fucking love this book

It’s great. Stephenson writes at a breakneck pace, especially in the first act. It explores a ton of wild concepts without asking much of your suspension of disbelief, especially since VRChat is a thing now lol

It’s a fantastic fucking book, one of my all-time favorites in this life. It’s wild as fuck and absolutely packed with mind-bending shit, but still manages to feel real and grounded. Feels like a mixture of Hitchhiker’s Guide, Shadowrun and Snatch, with characters getting wrapped up in each other’s schemes against the backdrop of a balkanized hypercapitalist hellscape, where information is king and there truly is no society.

I am leaving out so, so much.

If you ignore most of the oversexualization of the secondary main character “YT”, who is an underage girl. Then yeah it’s a decent read filled with absolutely insane shit. The first chapter gives a pretty good feel for what the rest of the book is going to be like when he describes the main character and finally gives his job occupation.