This is the first book I've listened to on audiobook that we've read, so I wonder if my perspective is colored by that, in that I can't tell if having someone else's voice in my head for reading it contributed to my overall negative opinion. Either way; I found the writing to be incredibly juvenile and simple and there was nothing about it that really sparked my interest or imagination. There's specifically a point towards the end at which I think 'big bad' John Nike comments on Hack's movement/group saying something along the lines of 'they're just kids protesting/the protests are really super amateur and bad' and at that exact line I thought 'well goddamn, so is this writing'. The initial setting was midly interesting, but as Matt has already pointed out, it felt like a super duper dumbed down version of the world of Snowcrash, without any of the creative or detailed nuance. Big corporations rule everything. Coroporation Bad. Government shitty. Government good, not want people die. Corporation