I pronounce it to be bloated, pretentious, encyclopedic, prescient, and hilarious. At first, I was really pissed off at the ending, but the more I thought about the structure of the book and how it related to the themes presented, the better and more coherent it looked. This is a big, difficult, ambitious mess of a novel, but it gets right much more than it gets wrong. Probably the closest thing we’ll get to a War and Peace for millennial America.