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Summary: Had its good points
Review: I really liked the speculative science fiction in this book. The characters were great, and I even liked the story when it was moving. But I got bored with the chapters on philosophy; it slowed the pace of the book just when things were getting good.
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Summary: Definitely worth the read, but easy to get lost in.
Review: Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash is a shining beacon in the world of cyperpunk novels. He twists the world of thr future around to make it dark, as per the formula, but also very interesting and at points humourous even. I enjoyed Snow Crash quite a bit, but I enjoyed Zodiac, also by Stephenson, so much more. Definitely read Snow Crash, but check out his other works are well.Snow Crash does do a wonderful job in its portrayals of the main characters, but Stephenson sometimes gets lost in the wonders of the world that he has created it. A tighter focus on characters and plotting would have served the book well.
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Summary: Very, very funny
Review: You can really buy this future world and the metaverse as described by Stephenson. The charecters are fantastic. The religion part was too much and took too long to describe. This is a must read.
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Summary: Excellent! A must-read!
Review: I found Snow Crash to be a highly enjoyable book. I would reccomend it to anyone. I love Stephenson's sense of satire, he pokes fun at everything from suburbia to the Mafia. That and the interesting little insights into what the future could look like makes a good book into a great book.
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Summary: A Must Read!
Review: This is a masterful work. I have read it over and over again, and I enjoy it every time. It mixes a masterful rendering of a possible future of the world with a quickly moving plot that has a uniquely intriguing backbone idea. The ending leaves a little to be desired, like many other great scifi/fantasy books, it just ends, with no wrap-up. Despite this, I would suggest this book to anyone, and have in fact loaned my copy out to many of my friends.
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Summary: One hack of a book!
Review: Nothing but good thing is what I can say about this book
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Summary: Awesome book -- awful book
Review: Three stars doesn't quite sum up how I feel about this book. I do consider it essential reading for anyone interested in Sci-fi or Cyberpunk, but that doesn't undo the fact that there are some utterly absurd elements that undercut the aesthetic value of the book. First, the good. I have never read some a convincing picture of the future as world-gone-bad. Though Stephenson doesn't spend any time really explaining how society got the way it has, the way it has become is quite powerfully presented. His understanding of the way in which the Internet might develop reflects a sense of vision and insight that would have done Jules Verne proud. On so many things--future weapons, potential subcultural groups, lingo and slang, technology--Stephenson hits precisely the right note. On top of all this, he has a wonderful assemblage of characters. For all of this, Stephenson unquestionably deserves 5 stars. But SNOW CRASH also is one more example of how things go wrong in sci-fi when there is any attempt to deal with religion. There have been, of course, many fine sci-fi novels in which religion has served as an element. The great classic A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ springs to mind. But when sci-fi attempts explain religious phenomena or to bring it within the contenxt of imaginative analysis, it invariably fails. The extended and tedious discussions of Sumerian culture and the highly speculative discussions of the history of religions were not merely unconvincing and poorly founded on any of the historical record. They were boring. For this, SNOW CRASH deserves 1 star. So, I recommend this book very highly. But I do warn any potential reader that there are several passages and chapters that mar an otherwise masterful work.
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Summary: Absolutely fantastic
Review: That's all I have to say. Insanely great
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Summary: A fantastic rush that ends to quickly.
Review: I absolutely loved everything about this book, except the ending. I loved the characters, the social satire, the plot, even the edutainment about Sumerian language viruses. But I felt like it was missing an entire chapter. I actually checked the page numbers of the library copy I had thinking somebody had ripped it out. It left so much unresolved. I felt like it needed a couple more short chapters to tie up all the loose ends. Where's the deneuoment (sp)? Besides my disappointment with the chopped ending, I think it's probably the best Science Fiction book I've read in years. Definitely worth it.
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Summary: The most genius book written for our generation
Review: Snow Crash exudes hipness while at the same time using a scholarly/slang vocabulary which does a marvelous job of not insulting its audience's intelligence. This book actually got me to start reading fiction again. At almost 500 pages, the book's content can be a bit heavy, like the way you feel after you eat a big greasy meal, but the book compels you to keep chugging through the computer lingo and it is worth it. It may prove to be a difficult read for those who have no background with computers, but Snow Crash could probably teach a seasoned computer scientist a thing or two. Also, it upsets the accepted religious notions of our time and presents a past and future which both makes one think about the present. A MUST READ!
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