I felt that if I posted a link to a bookseller, it might be interpreted as spam.
His last book was horrible pretentious crap.
His last book was a series of 7(?) To which one are you refering?
Cryptonomicon. I just found it unreadable. I made it about 80 pages before giving up. I did enjoy his short stories, but my view is he is an average writer, at best, with an above average imagination. His clever ideas can carry a short story, but collapse under the weight of his prose in a novel.
In fact of everything I’ve read of his I find his non-fiction to be by far his best writing. He did a series of articles for Wired magazine in the late 90s that were fabulous.
He has always seemed like William Gibson’s junior cousin when it comes to fiction.
Well, this is not the sort of thing I usuallly read, but I loved the Baroque Cycle and Cryptonomicon—ate them up, marvelling at how good Stephenson really is. So even though I’m not the science fiction type, I’ll try this. I think the guy is very bright, very gifted.