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Summary: AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I think this book was put togeather well. I also think that this book reached into the very depths of the future with an enthrawling plot. Snow Crash hooks you and does not let go.
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Summary: Did the original author die after the first 150 pages?
Review: The first third of the book is brilliant: wildly imaginative, darkly hilarious, and perhaps all too prescient. After that, however, the story devolves into an unappealing mixture of Sumerian mythology and high-tech fight scenes. The taut pacing and sparkle of the opening are almost completely lost as we are deluged with copious details about all the wrong things; ancient and modern techno-babble swamp the story and the characters. The perfunctory and cartoonish closing chapters are especially poor.In short: great set-up; lousy follow-through. Tear out the last two-thirds of the book and pretend you're reading a great unfinished novel.
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Summary: It is good. Very good. Godlike good.
Review: This is probably second only to Neuromancer. A good read, many times through.
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Summary: Great BOOK I READ IT OVER 5 TIMES!!!!!
Review: This book is AWESOME, it will blow you away if you are the least bit interested in the future, computers, or games. Great book recommend it to anyone. Neal Stephenson is the best
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Summary: Neil Wields a Pen as Masterfully as Hiro Wields a Katana
Review: Speaking as someone who has studied mythology, theology, computer science and history, I am astounded that anyone could tie these diverse branches of study into a cogent, readable, and most importantly, enjoyable read. I found Stephenson's treatment of pre-biblical Sumerian legend, which has a direct impact on the biblical tales told in Genesis, to border on scholarly. To categorize this book as Sci-Fi does a grave injustice to Mr. Stephenson. This book is so much more than just Sci-Fi. I have just finished reading this work and the words I present here are wholly inadequate to describe my appreciation. Perhaps once I've truly digested the myriad messages embedded within, and re-read once more, I'll be better equipped to discuss the gift that Mr. Stephenson has emparted to us all. If you read one book this month, please pick this one up. You won't be sorry.
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Summary: Amazing reading, page turner
Review: This is an amazing book and one that cant be put down. I love the way that Stephenson ties together so many interesting theories that would be page turners in their own right. Very few books have made it to my "read at least once a year" pile, this one made it to the top of the heap.
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Summary: The 'other' cyberpunk novel (neuromancer being the first)
Review: Being a big fan of cyberpunk and sf in general i leapt at the opportunity to read a 'great' book, as had been recommended to me. I was not dissapointed. im incapable of understanding how one mind could possibly imagine a plot of this complexity. i can understand some readers giving this book a lower rating if they lack interest in a) hacker culture or b) mythology, but i love both and adore this book. not as bleak (at least more humourous) than neuromancer, i consider it (and so do any of my friends who've read it) a rarely matched cyberpunk classic.
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Summary: Free-style metropolitan mitology
Review: One of the best book I have ever red
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Summary: Loved this book, even better than Diamond Age
Review: I thought Diamond Age was incredible, until I read Snow Crash. I was fascinated by Snow Crash. Great story, great handle on technology, a history lesson thrown in for the fun of it.
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Summary: Good, but did somebody tear pages out of the draft???
Review: The book was interesting to read, perhaps a little too hard to comprehend in some places, sometimes due to author's style of writing, sometimes due to wwwWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYyyyy too long descriptions and discussions about the nature or religions, languages, and so on. But that's not really bad, and author had some very interesting and ideas about future tech developments - Kouriers and "doggies" are my favorites. What I really didn't like was inability to make a coherent story - starting from the middle of the book. It's like some pages are missing, and you can't go with the flow - it's not like flowing, it's like jumping from one rock to another down the river. Especially the ending - it SUCKED BIG TIME (IMHO). The book doesn't really have an ending, seems like author was on deadline to finish it, so he just typed a couple of paragraphs and said:"OK, seems to be arright. Here you go." After all the action before that, I was extremely disappointed when I've read the final page :(. I got the book only because one of my friends who have read Gibson's "Neuromancer" said that "Snow Crash" was even better. Well.... NO!!! I wouldn't recommend it to people who had read Gibson's novels - it's very bleak in comparison. And to those who didn't - I wouldn't recommend it either, because after this one they probably wouldn't read other, better, cyberpunk books.
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