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Summary: Post-modern Cyberpunk at its best!
Review: At first, Stephenson's informal style of writing and the use of present tense verbs confused me, but I quickly grew to love it. The names are great (Hiro Protagonist, Da5id, Y.T., Raven, Rife, &c) and the plot incredible. I wish I had a computer like Hiro's. Let's hope the Palace gets a lot more sophisticated so the Metaverse is a real thing.
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Summary: i am the nam-shub, the big me en shabub shiskabob
Review: thrashin', dude
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Summary: My current all-time absolute favorite book...!!!!
Review: This has GOT to be one of the best "almost the future but not quite" books ever written. The scary thing about Snow Crash is not how UNLIKE the present it is, but how similar it is in so many ways...Go read it!
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Summary: execllent!
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Summary: Great Book
Review: This is one of the best books I have ever read. It was the first book of the cyber punk genre that I have ever read and I would like to say that I expect to read more if they are as good as this. I have been reading sci-fi for as long as I can remember reading, and the only book I can remember that was this good was Ender's Game, although they are in different catagories. Even the end is well done (not always other peoples opinion), because not all the questions were answered-- but the questions left unanwsered either do not have answers, or when you think of it are irrelevent. This is a must for anyone who likes to read any sort of sci-fi or fantasy.
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Summary: An incredible story
Review: I was unsure of what to make of this book. My English teacher suggested we take a look at it one day, and I bought it on a whim. It really was a very entertaining read. My favorite characters were YT and Uncle Enzo (shame they didn't get more scenes together), and Hiro wasn't bad either. The villains were incredible, and alot of the story ideas actually made me think (something not a lot of book today do.)
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Summary: It just wasn't exciting.
Review: After struggling over what to buy next, I reached for Snow Crash. Frankly, I thought the story was kind of boring. I loved the idea of relating ancient Sumerian myth to modern society but the story, that is built around it, is weak. There was no desciptive writing anywhere. I couldn't wait to finish so I could move on to another book. And the ending - its bad. The whole "raft" sequence was confusing and dull. However, with the wide range of reviews given, you'll just have to read it for yourself.
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Summary: Outstanding
Review: The plot and the way Stephenson describes the characthers in their environment is so realistic it's absolutely mindboggling. Definately a treat for a sci-fi buff.
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Summary: Strong start, short half-life.
Review: Snow Crash is 'classic' Stephenson, with all the warts and dimples that implies. The 'dimples' are the excellent sense of language-play, the shish-boom-bah opening sequence, and the truly intriguing alternate society.Heading up the 'warts' column is Stephenson's apparently congenital inability to write an actual *ending* to any of his books (see _The Big U_, _The Diamond Age_, and, while I'm only on page 637, doubtless _Cryptonomicon_ as well). The integration of high-tech and deep-past could have been done better (and has been done better, by other writers), but it's adequate. It's an interesting novel-of-ideas, and the much-maligned YT is actually one of the few teenaged characters that actually acts like a teenager -- spookily mature judgement paired with spontaneous lapses of horrible judgement, all slaved to a hormonal throttle -- very much like what I recall from my own adolescence. Hiro is a garbage character, sure, like someone's RPG character thrown into a novel, but he's a fine Beatrice to lead us through Stephenson's wittily described Infernal circles. If only he'd get out of the habit of writing himself into corners...
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Summary: Enjoyable, But Skip the Sumerian
Review: Nowhere near as significant as a groundbreaking book like Neuromancer, this book is a light and enjoyable read. That is, if you can overlook the gaping plot holes, overly smug tone, and (worst of all) about 50 pages of garbled ancient Sumerian crap, which was about 49 pages too many.
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