The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson

The story of an engineer who creates a device to raise a girl capable of thinking for herself reveals what happens when a young girl of the poor underclass obtains the device.

One of the best books I've ever read...

After 2 hours of reading, did not get a sense of a plot. Just world building and some characters engaging in daily routines. There is this guy that robs people, and gets caught. Nothing exceptional about it. Also a young girl and his brother, interacting with the technological aspects of this futuristic world.

The writing is heavy on sci-fi slangs that denotes precisely the kind of book I don´t like to read. If the story is no interesting enough, this detracts me from reading the book.

Read: 10%, 2:00/18:30 hours

The Diamond Age pulls you into a wonderful world of new lingo, social strata and devices. The story starts out with few different story lines that inevitably weave together. It is set in a possible future in which country states have become obsolete because of a digital currency. Prophecies of cryptocurrencies and 3d-printer in a book that was first published in 1995.

The book has some great words and wonderful phrasing. Sentences are straightforward and not needlessly complicated. There is a colorful cast of characters and a very interesting world this is a part of.

The only thing that really bummed me out was that it ended rather quickly.

Fun and entertaining. Victorian-ish nanotech. It was sort of like steampunk but with neither steam nor punk. It's also heavy on low-level computer science topics, which have a special place in my heart.