From the very first page, I think I knew I was going to have a little bit of trouble getting through this one. It's not like it was very hard or long or anything, but there was a special type of "futuristic" teenage lingo happening that I had to mentally translate as I read. It can get pretty boring after a while until you can see one word and say another in your head as you read. I know that colloquialisms change all the time and that if you don't know the origins and they are just thrust upon you then you can have difficulty adapting to them, but given context clues and the way they are used, it's pretty easy to figure them out. Like reading A Clockwork Orange for the first time.
Having said that, I ended up REALLY enjoying the book. It gave really good insight as to the way the world is progressing and how humans interact with one another and I think that some of these things will definitely come to pass if we are not careful. The hopelessness of the characters near the end reflected the emptiness that the main character was feeling at the beginning, despite being sent a steady and overwhelming stream of data at all times of the day, every day.
I really enjoyed this book.
