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Summary: Wowww!
Review: Fantastic book. I enjoyed the "comic-book" like action with the added plus of being one of the definitive first works of cyber-punk fiction. Great pace all the way through the book. When I finished, all I could think was "damn, it's over". Loved the name "Hiro Protaganist", and all the other literary "easter-eggs". Buy it, Read it. Seriously, No Regrets.
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Summary: fantastic novel
Review: This novel lived up to all the hype surrounding it and then some. I read it in very quickly. It was very hard to put it down, yet it was interesting as well. I really liked all the main characters and a lot of the technologies used in the novel. Stephenson obviously put a lot of time into researching for this novel, and gives it a nice twist to make it seem very plausible. (for a sci-fi novel) I really can't wait to read his other novels.
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Summary: It took me 2 days to read this
Review: I could not put this book down, from the first two chapters on i was hooked. The Sumerian legend was emaculately intertwined throughout this novel and in my opinion was what made it different. This is not just another cyberpunk book.....this is THE cyberpunk book. I do agree with one of the other reviewers that i was wondering where the last few chapeters were. I read the about the author hoping it would give me the closure i so sorely needed. READ THIS BOOK.
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Summary: Lost interest during the reading
Review: I read snow crash's beginning fast.But as I came to the future lineout with people living in a future internet-universe, with chaos, that were reflected in the real-world outside, I was slowing down the reading. It might very well be one outline of the future. But I serious don't believe in it. The Nerds in the book, were not evn real nerds, and people and the world seemed lost without direction. A guy riding around with a hydrogen bomb ? That is where I stopped.
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Summary: Domino's Schmomino's - Cosa Nostra Pizza's the Best!
Review: In this novel (about the fifth or sixth cyberpunk novel I've read), I was really taken with the way Stephenson made the corporate states so pervasive. Of course, powerful corporations are at the heart of most cyberpunk novels, but here they completely take the place of nations (well, almost). I also enjoyed the humor apparent in the novel - I mean, really, the main good guy is named Hiro Protagonist! And the image of the Mafia Pizza guy in my mind is just too funny. You want pepperoni with that? Forget about it!
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Summary: A great book but has a few drawbacks
Review: Stephenson is a great writer but seems to have the (unfortunate) tendency to cut his books off just as the final climax is occuring. I was looking for the next chapter when I realized I was reading "About the Author." (WARNING: potential spoilers ahead). Although I enjoyed Snow Crash immensely, I was left wondering what the hell was going to happen to most of the characters at the end, namely: Raven, Uncle Enzo, Y.T., Hiro and Jaunita - or just about every major character in the book. I didn't feel their parts were fully played yet. For instance, what about Raven's nuclear bomb? Was he wounded when his knives shattered? Does Y.T.'s Mom still work at Fedland even though they almost got her daughter killed? Also, L. Bob Rife's character didn't seem very realistic to me and a few things about the metavirus were also sketchy. I had similar questions at the end of Diamond Age. Still though, the book was very funny, had interesting scenes, characters and high-tech gadgets and even with my questions, I'd highly recommend it to anyone who likes this (or any) type of sci-fi.
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Summary: Wonderful!
Review: This book is incredible! It reads with a very fast pace, and never really gets boring or slow at any point. Neal Stephenson has definitely done his research, as the information on Sumerian myth is incredibly detailed and rich. The book has a lot of action and it's also a great satire of what today's culture may become in the future. I loved this book!
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Summary: An incredible, comic, yet entertaining read
Review: That's why they call it fiction. The characters are crazy and a bit scary too. He has taken some of our most serious social problems; drugs, organized crime, the internet, hackers, corporate greed; and extrapolated them into an extremley entertaining, although unbelievable tale. No, this is not going to happen to America. Read the book though, I think you will enjoy it. If you like Stephenson, you must also check out "Transfer: the end of the begining," by author Jerry Furland. Then you will know where America is really headed.
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Summary: Worthy Sci-Fi read
Review: I must admit that Stephenson has a vivid imagination even if his general vision of the future seems to be consistently bleak in his novels about them. "Snow Crash" is another book in the tradition of "The Diamond Age" that imagines what the next era will be like. "Diamond" looks farther down the line, into the next century, while "Show Crash" looks at how things will be just decades from now. It sees a world in which the US has collapsed under its own weight, in which the Mafia controls pizza delivery, and the FBI has its own city-state. Electronic guard dogs patrol the Asian community and skating is now even more firmly rooted as its own sub-culture. The main character, the not-so-subtly named Hiro Protagonist, is a sword-wielding freelance programmer who stumbles upon a shadowy conspiracy by powers unknown that threatens hackers worldwide with a virus that seems to leave them in a vegetative state. He takes on the challenge of finding out who is behind it and how to stop them mostly through a series of accidents. He is joined by a plucky young skater who has drawn attention from the local Mafia king. Lurking in the shadows is a dangerous Eskimo who goes by the name of Raven and rides a motorcycle powered with a nuclear bomb in its frame. Like I said, Stephenson has an active imagination. His characters are colorful but not really that broadly drawn. We get a sense of what they are like from what they do, but we only get snippets of background information about them. It was hard to really root for the characters because I did not feel I really knew or identified with them. Still, I really enjoyed his descriptions of the strange places they travel to, including the Mafia and FBI states, and an aircraft character that houses its own nation of people from every culture. As far as the conspiracy goes, it was unclear to me what the motivations of the people behind it were supposed to be. The technical aspects were also pretty hard to follow; it gets heavy in the nature of languages and programming. Even as someone who has dabbled in programming languages I had trouble understanding it. Other than Raven, who as a villain is fleshed out pretty well and is the most interesting character, I got the sense that the threat was really a clothesline on which to hang Stephenson's world vision and weird characters. I felt unsatisfied when the conclusion rolled around, since it is so abrupt and had little to do with the nature of the people involved. Still, I had fun reading this book. It has a wild and strange vision of the future that may prove eirily accurate if things continue to move in the direction they are in. I liked the characters even if I didn't completely identify them. And the story is gripping even if you can't follow the plot. It is the mark of a good writer that he can bite off more than he can chew and yet make it palateable.
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Summary: My Favorite Book
Review: I read this book a few months ago and loved it. It is very entertaining and has a very interesting story. It is mainly about a different type of virus that can infect you through your blood or your computer. This book has everything from hackers, virtual reality, and cyborg dogs, to the mofia, odd cults, samuria sword fights and mind control dating back to ancient religions. If you haven't read this yet, you should definitly get it.
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