But, since you did already enjoy Diamond Age, Seveneves, and Cryptonomicon, I think there's a good chance you'll be glad if you give it a fair chance. If none of that appeals to you then it may not be your best choice.
So for this book in particular, I'd suggest that either you get a kick out of the slow burn of worldbuilding on a massive scale, and/or you eventually reap the rewards of delayed gratification. You'd just think everyone was acting weird and reduce it to kinda "why don't they just.?" It simply wouldn't compute, you'd have no context or understanding of things like the dynamics between Montagues and Capulets, or why Romeo & Juliet have to sneak away in secret, and you wouldn't even see themes like free will or the pressure of war. And then imagine trying to understand anything at all in a Shakespeare book, without first having learned anything about history, especially the middle ages and Renaissance. Imagine being a young kid today, growing up where cell phones and internet and modern tech are ubiquitous. Neal Stephenson Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer, known for his speculative fiction works, which have been variously categorized science fiction, historical fiction, maximalism, cyberpunk, and postcyberpunk.
If you like the idea of being dropped into a strange world/culture where things are very different, or you get a geeky pleasure out of learning a new glossary of terms, then it should be worth the investment. It requires HUGE worldbuilding to have the rest make sense. Like others have said, maybe the book is for you or not, but you'll need more than 20 pages to figure that out.
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