4.0

It took a few chapters to really hold my interest, but once I got to know Ether and Abbot, I was in for the ride. Unexpectedly got too close to home at the end and did result in some sobbing. It's a very silly and very human story about how people act in our everyday life-on-smart-phones chaos -- that speculative technofiction vibe you get from a Neal Stephenson novel but mashed up with like whoopie cushion prank videos on YouTube. Smart, stupid, immature, and a road trip. I liked it a lot.