It's one of maybe 3 or 4 sci fi books I read, and I read it a while ago, but I liked it. Some of the stuff is hard to follow/visualize, especially the later cyberspace scenes with I believe Wintermute.
I meant to read the other 2 books in the trilogy, but never got around to them.
If they ever made it into a high-budget movie, it'd be The Matrix times babillion, sans the bullshit religious references.
Oh, and that reminded me of another fiction book I read:
It's so gloriously twisted, and might appeal to the fetishist freaks on the forums. From Wiki: one publisher's reader returned the verdict "This author is beyond psychiatric help. Do Not Publish!" which is what prompted me to read it.
The movie is also great (the 1996 one, not the bullshit unrelated 2004 crap)