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Another author would get 3 stars for this. Mr. Stephenson gets 2 because I expect better from him, especially at a high price.

Short version: The book is interesting, sometimes funny, often shallow. The characters are one-dimensional (except Rebecca). The military jargon is bad. The use of letters/diaries/journals as the narrative works ok, but there's no framing story to explain why these things are collected, or by whom. The mechanics of magic are believable enough to suspend disbelief.

I read at least one volume of the Baroque Cycle (The Baroque Cycle: Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World) every year. The characters are believable, consistent, and so well-developed over their lives that I can jump back into Quicksilver and remember young Eliza after having last read about older pock-marked Eliza in SotW and feel like I'm meeting her again. It takes place across such important historical events and does such a good job of putting characters in places of import with humor and subtlety that make it all just so fascinating.

I've also read a lot of Clancy's Ryan books. Clancy did a lot of collaborative stuff, too. I remember reading the first Net Force book. I feel about The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O (dodo) the same way as I do about Net Force. It was fun. I remember liking the plot and the character interactions, but I can tell you nothing now of substance about any of them. Prior military, I think? One had a Plymouth Prowler? They were throw-away books. Fun, but not meaningful.

Dodo feels like a read-and-forget novel that is leading into a series. It ends without resolution, and given that the former work these authors did together was a number of books in series, I'm expecting to see more of these. If they show, I'll wait for the reviews before deciding if it's worth the time/money. There are many things touched on but never utilized that a good edit would have removed, unless they will be needed later. Storing data in an ODEC, for example.

In closing.. read it if you've got the time and the price comes down, but if you are a fan of NS, lower your expectations.


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The Rise and Fall of DODO A Novel edition by Neal Stephenson Nicole Galland Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews

The premise of the book is everything you would expect from a Stephenson book. A unique blend of science, society, situation all with a twist. It's one of the reasons I like his work. This starts out that way with a novel connection of Quantum Mechanics, Schroeder's cat, covert operations and witchcraft all around time travel. I was really looking forward to the book and for the first half it delivered, the only issue is that Stephenson forgot he needed to write an ending. Where other books had drama as they reach a climax, that never happens here. The book just fizzles at the end and leaves you with an ending that seems more like a pilot for a time travel drama on TV than a work of provocative fiction.

This is really hard for me to write, but its the first book by Stephenson that I have read that I wished I could get my money back. It's the first book that I would suggest even fans avoid.

I hate to say this as it has all the right ingredients, vivid and interesting characters, a great premise and an insight into bureaucracy that is both smart and snarky at the same time. Those are the real strengths of this book.

The failure is in the plot and what it is driving to. There is a plot at the start, but then it fails to materialize. There is no real antagonist or villain.. Sure there is, but they are not as villainous as they shoudl be to drive a story.

In the movies, they fault the director of a movie which has a great cast but does not seem to deliver. This is the case here. Not Stephenson's best and it may be his worst work.
I wish I could return it and forget I ever saw this book. Many other negative reviews have covered many of my problems so I will just highlight the most grievous offenses. First too many stereotypical military/government/academical types just there to be obtuse, narrow-minded enablers of chaos (trust me on this one). A couple of "anachons" who were way too modern and savvy for the times they came from, especially the Viking. The arbitrary nature of the "shears" i.e. minor offenses cause disaster while big offenses did nothing. All of this though pales in the light of the giant self-fulfilling paradox on which the entire plot is built and which the characters involved don't even question. Everything could have been averted with a couple of questions before anything really got started.
Another author would get 3 stars for this. Mr. Stephenson gets 2 because I expect better from him, especially at a high price.

Short version The book is interesting, sometimes funny, often shallow. The characters are one-dimensional (except Rebecca). The military jargon is bad. The use of letters/diaries/journals as the narrative works ok, but there's no framing story to explain why these things are collected, or by whom. The mechanics of magic are believable enough to suspend disbelief.

I read at least one volume of the Baroque Cycle (The Baroque Cycle Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World) every year. The characters are believable, consistent, and so well-developed over their lives that I can jump back into Quicksilver and remember young Eliza after having last read about older pock-marked Eliza in SotW and feel like I'm meeting her again. It takes place across such important historical events and does such a good job of putting characters in places of import with humor and subtlety that make it all just so fascinating.

I've also read a lot of Clancy's Ryan books. Clancy did a lot of collaborative stuff, too. I remember reading the first Net Force book. I feel about The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O (dodo) the same way as I do about Net Force. It was fun. I remember liking the plot and the character interactions, but I can tell you nothing now of substance about any of them. Prior military, I think? One had a Plymouth Prowler? They were throw-away books. Fun, but not meaningful.

Dodo feels like a read-and-forget novel that is leading into a series. It ends without resolution, and given that the former work these authors did together was a number of books in series, I'm expecting to see more of these. If they show, I'll wait for the reviews before deciding if it's worth the time/money. There are many things touched on but never utilized that a good edit would have removed, unless they will be needed later. Storing data in an ODEC, for example.

In closing.. read it if you've got the time and the price comes down, but if you are a fan of NS, lower your expectations.