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Summary: Good start, weak finish
Review: I mainly read fantasy with occasional forays into scifi. I ordered this book on the strength of the acclaim from other readers. For the first several chapters I really enjoyed the read, with the biting satire and ultra hip characters. But the book lost steam mid way through, and was a bit of a chore to finish. Frankly the lectures on the nature of religion and verbal viruses were incredibly dull. It ruined the momentum created by the fast paced beginning. Also the humor virtually (pun intended) disappeared at the same time. I kept anticipating another amusing vignette but it never happened. As in many science fiction or fantasy hack jobs, the characters never rose above their stereotypic introductions. My advice is to check it out in your local library. When you get to the section involving the Librarian, if you still like it, then fork over the bucks for your own copy. Me, I'm rereading Hyperion.
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Summary: Fantastic book!
Review: I absolutely loved this book. Just don't examine the archeology too closely - I've heard here and from others that the archeology Stephenson uses is completely absurd. However, this is a book I reread every so often. I absolutely love the concept of the Black Sun, a place where the best hackers can gather in the Metaverse. The concept of a computer drug/virus that can kill is fascinating. This book stretches the mind. Read it!
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Summary: Best Book I have ever read!!!
Review: I have to say this is the best book I have ever read. But I must say, you will either love this book, or hate it.
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Summary: Good... very good
Review: As someone who has never read any science-fiction at all, this caught me by surprise and I had a difficult time putting the book down. The reason I got it was because my professor in a terrorism class said it was the best book on terrorism ever written. So I got it and was kind of surprised when I read the words "No. 1 Science-Fiction Bestseller" on the cover. But I can see my prof's meaning.. this is a really good example of terrorism. Read it and enjoy.
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Summary: great for starting a fire
Review: I really hate it when an author likes to tell me at every page turned how much he knows about how computers work. He sometimes talks down to the reader, and pretty much took everything good from Gibson, and added a new look to it. It is a funny book, But then again Neuromancer was a funny book too, and that was written in '83, and is STILL a better book than this will ever be...
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Summary: Are you alive? Read the first chapter and find out...
Review: You want to check if you are still a living, breathing person and not some TV addled, techno-zombie existing from one murk filled day to the next just for your daily fast food fix? Read the first chapter. If you aren't at LEAST chuckling aloud at times (I personally howled at "That Was Stale" and "Smooth Move Ex-Lax"), then give it up- you must already be dead and just ain't fallen over yet... Some of the most biting satire on our "popular" culture I have ever come across can be found lurking, like buried treasure, in the pages of this quite astounding novel. I have found myself returning to this book every year, like some demented pilgrim, discovering anew on each reading some gem of wit and/or malice to my infinite amusement. This combined with Stepehenson's laser-sharp prose and absolutely insane characters give this book an honored place on my shelf. Sell the cat if you must to afford a copy, but by all means... Read it.
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Summary: Almost a masterwork
Review: Snowcrash is a rip roaring trip through a future where the free market has gone to its logical extreme. The world concept is hardly original but Stephenson uses it as a backdroup and then throws in world domination, religion and meme theory and a lot of very accessible humour. Read Snowcrash as a graphical novel in words. Its almost a masterwork, but its science is imperfect. Hard SF fans might not find it to taste. Snowcrash is easy to read, easy to enjoy and a welcome change from some of the more turgid "Cyberpunk" authors.
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Summary: A fabulously entertaining read. Highly recommended.
Review: After reading the earler reviews, I must say I agree with most: Snow Crash is a fantastically fun ride through cyberpunk, satire, computer technology, obscure brainwashing techniques and anything else Stephenson got his hands on. Yes, the ending is weak. I am confident that a sequel will be forthcoming. What disturbs me are the numerous reviews which cited the resemblance between Snow Crash and Gibson's Virtual Light. Let's get one thing straight. Snow Crash came out at least a year (I think it may have been longer) before Virtual Light. As hard as it may be to conceive perhaps the father of cyberpunk is not above common plagiarism. If you want Stephenson with more grounding in the real world check out the two books he wrote with his cousin (?) under the pen name Stephen Bury. Interface and The Cobweb. Both very fun reads.
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Summary: An engaging comic book; gets most of the technology wrong
Review: Inspired at best by a DC Comics view of an alternate universe... Funny only by virtue of the audaciousness of the caricatures. Not in the same league (or genre) as "Neuromancer," and not even in the same universe as "A Canticle for Leibowitz" as suggested by an earlier reviewer. Purely for light diversion, at which it succeeds marginally.
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Summary: Best book I've ever read. Cyberpunk rules
Review: Snow Crash is definetly the best book I've ever read. Science fiction is my favorite subject and I never knew that Snow Crash exsisted this year. My favorite sci-fi book before Snow Crash was Ender's Game. Orson Scott Card was my favorite author. Now Neal Stephenson is my favorite. I'm sure I can find other books like this. The main character in the book is Hiro Protoganist. Another main character is Y.T.. The book explains industry in the future, technology, crime, government, and secret agents. Raven is one of the bad guys. He carries around glass knives which can't be seen and he carries around nuclear bombs. He rides a motercycle and hacks computers with a virus called Snow Crash which distributes a pschological sickness to people called Glossolalia. The main bad guy is L. Bob Rife. He created Snow Crash. It's kind of ironic that the good guys in the book are the mafia. The president is even with L. Bob Rife. Hiro Protoganist is the greatest swordsman in the world, a freelance hacker, secret agent for the CIC corporation, a fighter in the metaverse (a computer generized world), a pizza deliverer for the mafia, and becomes a security council owner. Anybody who likes sci-fi has to read this book. There are so many things that happen in the book I can't explain. So many bussiness, people, murders, and relations to technology
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