Rating: 
Summary: A computer thriller not worth reading.
Review: This novel had a very good start. With a gripping prologue and a promising idea, it was headed in a new intriguing direction. However, rather soon it became obvious that it wasn't about computers at all. (The pseudo-excerpts from C++ code were written in faulty BASIC, for example. The description of a virus was laughable, and so were the characters trying to understand it.) The book is about the Maya and the year 2000, hence the title. And it would still be an okay story, had it not been so incredibly redundant and vicious. The elements of gore, deaths, and suffering, add nothing to the storyline but a shiver through the readers' spines (thrillers are supposed to have an element of suspense, and not of disgust), and the repetition of certain phrases and ideas slow down the flow of the novel to a halt. By the middle of the book, the storyline gets so tedious and the events so repetitive, that the only motivation to keep reading is the desire to know how it ends.But the ending just kills all the hope that you saved up `til that moment. There is no climax and no shocking discovery, just an old "and they lived happily ever after." The characters are as plain as the pages they are printed on. Therefore, with no suspense, no computer references, and no real characters, this book is pretty much empty. I suggest everyone to skip it and read something else.
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