tbrov 's review for:

Gnomon by Nick Harkaway
4.0

This is so dense - a ton going on and it deserves a re-read, although I'm not sure I will. It's got puzzles and layers and things that mean other things and overlapping stories and different levels of "reality" and it's generally confusing and entrancing at the same time. Even so, the main theme is never in doubt - mass surveillance is not good for society.

This felt like a combo of David Mitchell and Neil Stephenson, plus the most obscure words you can find in the dictionary. A little bit of DFW nonlinear-ness. It was totally worth the time and concentration it took to get through almost 700 pages.