The premise of the book is an interesting one, and the truth unfolded in onion-like layers. A dead language tied to a futuristic computer virus that renders hacker brains into soup.  The story of Babel adapted into essentiall  biological editing. Really neat.

This was my first Neal Stephenson novel and won't be my last. I'm curious to see how what other human ticks might his sci-fi explore. This 1992 book suffered from what most sci-fi did back then, which is dryness and over specification.

I took off a bit because for literally no reason, he decided to sexually pair a 15 yo child with a man in his 30's. It's gross. Stop doing that dudes.