Yikes! I'd decided to take a pass on anything he's written unless it received unanimous critical acclaim after slogging through Seveneves and not even finishing Reamde, so it's kind of sad to hear that things aren't getting better.

Imagine a stoned teenager really falling in love with the idea of rewriting Paradise Lost "but in a computer, like Tron".

And then vomiting like 700 pages of it.

And then not editing it.

And then releasing it in hardback.