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Summary: High octane Rambunctiousness!
Review: It's been a while since I read this book, but I now feel compelled to add my .02 (so I slack a bit). Stephenson's vision is compelling - so much so that this book has memed itself into the tech-culture that ultimately will be our everything <Smack> (end of seriousness) Bam! Wakes you up by throwing a red hot pizza into your unit and slapping you silly. Deliver that pizza or it's your a**! Today this work reads like a dictionary of all that is cool: #Mafia-pizza #Babylonian memes #Motorcycle tac-nuke #Floating city-state #Katana neckslices #Hypervelocity pitbull #Brainfry cyberdrug #Smartwheel skateboard #Monomolecular bumpersticker - Put those in your book. Snowcrash isn't a novel, its a hyperguide to better living. The Dick and Jane for our times. See Dick write code and wear a deck. I'm still reeling from this mind bomb. Dang, i've been memed.
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Summary: Fast, detailed, incredibly wide-ranging, very convincing.
Review: You are quickly caught up completely in the Snow Crash universe, moving at light speed wherever Stephenson takes you. Particularly impressive is that nothing seems dated. 1993 to now is a long time in the computer world, and his Metaverse is not co-opted or made to look foolish by the Internet, which became widespread, remember, completely after he wrote this book. I haven't seen any other writing with such technical detail that ages so well. Well researched, and much of the research can be done only by talking to people in the particular sub-culture - you can't just go down to the library for much of what has such a real, "I've been there" feel to it. I just wish there was a slightly toned-down version of the "gag and gauge" section - I'm of a generation where there are people I can't recommend the book to, just because of that little part. Lots of punch, lots of impact throughout the book. That one part just goes a little further.
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Summary: A Wild Ride
Review: Like The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash is a truly wild ride. And like Diamond Age, what you're getting here is really a series of odd and amusing episodes, with plot taking a back seat. Still, it's a fun ride.
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Summary: How Gibson should have done it
Review: Snow Crash is the book I now give to people in order to suck them into science fiction. It contains a good understanding of how programmers view the world, and of humor and irony. From the beginning, this book takes the reader on a (literal) ride through its world and challenges the reader to keep up. If light reading is what you're looking for, this book is not for you. While its premise is ridiculous, it -is- fun, and the journey it leads you on is amazing. Basic background: the concept of a "nation" has collapsed. Nothing is sacred unless it is related to money. Anti-technologists will hate this book. Techno-philes will love it.
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Summary: This is some dang good CP, read it!
Review: I read this book 6 months ago. Remembering how much I loved it, a few days ago I picked it up again and read the whole thing cover to cover in 3 days. The amount of work (4 years) that went into this book is amazing, and the humor is above and beyond any book I have ever read, this is my _favorite_ book. Stephenson's research and insight into such topics as skateboarding, heavy metal, computer programming, the mafia, corporate america, swordfighting, pizza delivery, linguistics and a slew of other things is incredibly impressive. The story has excellent flow, I could not put it down, which shows that book is impressive for holding the attention span of a 16 year old kid. This book combines my love of semi-pop-culture and cyberpunk that no other book I have ever read has. Stephenson is a genius. Yes, I know what I'm talking about I've read every Gibson book there is (except I'm in the middle of Idoru right now). You don't even have to be young to enjoy it, a 60 year old guy and I had a discussion about this book. I'd like to say you have to be the right kind of person for this book but you don't! Read it!!!
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Summary: This book kicked some major...!
Review: I picked this book up on a whim after reading about two lines worth of review in WiReD. Let me say this is one of the best books (Neruromancer is right up there too!) that I have read. I blew through it in 2 and half days. I couldn't put it down! The character were actually realistic, and I thought that the character of Y.T. to be one of the best portrals of a female character in any book I have read. She written in such a way that she almost, at times, displaced Hero. The plot was of the standard, One man vs the world to save everyone type, but what made it diffrent was the fact that it was believable and the characters were well written, nay, superbly written helped you really get lost in all of it. The mix of Mafia, Yazuka, Bushido, and Cyberpunk was handled really well. Its a really good look at how the future may turn out! This is one hell of a good book and good read!
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Summary: Techno-babble mixed with religio-babble
Review: Our "Hiro" (sic) is an underachieving superman able to do anything and everything but with no desire to do anything. The author tries to tie in Sumerian superstition with the bible, and relates everything as a computer virus. The characters develop relationships amongst each other not because they should but because he needs it to further the plot. The primary characters are two-dimensional and the rest are one-dimensional. The technology side is a reasonable projection into the future from where we are. The rest is junk.
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Summary: Loved the story, hated the ending
Review: Loved the story, hated the ending. *shrug*. Felt it was stilted.
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Summary: Bring the noise.....
Review: Entertainment, what can I say? Information, religion, chaos, violence and humour, I found this book refreshing and overall an excellent read. Gibson is cool but as angst filled as an ugly adolescent and it was a pleasure to read a cyberpunk novel that was not filled with self-absorbed rhetoric on the dark future of humankind, but rather made fun of our own existance and beliefs. Not scientifically accurate? Well this IS fiction! Not religiously or archaelogically accurate? Religion is based on myths and fables anyway, Christianity more than most having been constantly edited in its brief history, and archaeology is largely the opinions of a select few academics. I loved the Librarians "lecture", regardless of the opinions of those who claimed it as boring! Enjoy your reading, buy it and devour it! Like Carl Hiassen, I love to find an author who can let the reader have some fun. :o)
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Summary: "Snow Crash" is hip, hysterical and mind-bending
Review: A seminal book; Stephenson creates a dizzy, panoramic world. Savvy extrapolation on information theory and commercialization (the opening pizza-delivery episode is wildly funny). Left me astonished and overjoyed to have a writer of Stephenson's scope and sophistication working in the science-fiction field.
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