re: Seveneves - Neal Stephenson

I went into them wanting and expecting to love them. I found the characters aggressively insufferable. That could work if the characters are also interesting and differentiated. I think those really novels all have a mono voice of sorts. All the characters speak and think the same.

And that voice is constantly being for attention and trying to be edgy and cool.

That's nowhere to be found in Seveneves. It's also gone from Tthe Rise and Fall of DODO, which manages to the lighthearted and humorous content much more successfully (imo) than the early stuff.