Rainbows End

A future with wearable computers, wireless Internet connections everywhere, user-designed “views” of the world, a famous poet medically rehabilitated after Alzheimer's Disease, his teenage grandaughter and a white rabbit that appears from time to time. Normally this sort of story wouldn't appeal to me and I picked it up only because the author is one of my favorite SciFi writers, Vernor Vinge.
Unfortunately, I have to tell you that Vinge comes up short on this effort. Too many characters and plot lines made for a sluggish read; and the future world Vinge describes just wasn't that compelling for me. In the end...I couldn't make it to the end and dropped this book halfway through.