A review by chestel
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by Nicole Galland, Neal Stephenson

1.0

Wasted potential. Relentless, irritating, chirpy humour like a maiden aunt's first attempt at live blogging a cruise. Tiresomely repetitive jokes about workplace bureaucracy. Barely any plot stretched out over a long book. As a big fan of Neal Stephenson, I'm used to excessive length, divergence, exposition, some clunking dialogue and patchy characterisation. But he usually compensates with interesting ideas, some even serve as historical or technological education and for for all the pages of build up there's usually something exciting around the corner. This never delivered on ideas or action. I wish I could time travel and tell myself to skip this one.