

The gold, would then be held against the company because it would be the company asset, and therefore partially belong to the Dentist. The whole point of the lawsuit was to expose Epiphyte Corp for fraud in selling inflated shares to the Dentist in order to finance a wild gold chase. track our protagonists down in the jungle? On an insane, but inept, murderous rampage. Apparently the main antagonist (the Dentist) has sent his lawyer (Loeb) to. You slough through over 1000 pages of thick reading material, and then one of the major plot points is not even addressed at the end. While the fact that Stephenson can't write a female character to save his life can, i guess, be excused as "plot driven". The sexism and racism, though jarring at how nonchalant it is presented, can be somewhat waved off as a "period piece". This book took a long time to read, and was filled with techno-jargon relating to encryption, cryptography, historical fiction, modern (1999) hacking and encryption tech, and the intricacies of corporate lawsuits.
