I liked it, although like many of stephenson's books, the ending seemed to leave me with a "huh> it's over already" feeling - definitely a scattershot work, but pretty entertaining. At times I had trouble telling the different characters apart, but it had the "psychedelic trip" feeling of attending big state U - for those of us who did. It wanders around the different cliques and interactions with a slightly different twist (humourous) on them.