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Summary: Who are these guys?
Review: I will admit that my review is tainted by having read Cryptonomicron before reading this. Crypto was one of the ten best books to appear last year, but is a quantum leap forward as a novel. Snow Crash may have put Stephenson on the science fiction map but I but I'm not sure on which remote corner he appears. The characters are poorly developed, and their relationships even more poorly constructed. Hiro Protagonist turns out not to be the real hero in the end anyway (perhaps that is why his name is spelled incorrectly). The whole premise of the book is a little too bizarre for my personal taste. Parts of the book were amazingly well done. The Sumerian and Babel sections epecially, but the story didn't make me root for Hiro or against Raven. I really didn't care who won. In the end the real villain, Rife, gets so little attention as to be a mere add on. The ultimate hero Uncle Enzo is incompletely developed. I loved Crypto and perhaps my expectations were too high. The book left me flat except for the thought provoking subplot of language.
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Summary: yabii yddii zama
Review: yebbi yadu mmmm yum zum hezzzz uhmmm dohj doh doh la la la mumu hehe yaya flim fum fee fi fo fum yetta yebii uhmm doo ya ro so mo no to uammm zummm
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Summary: Wowww!
Review: Fantastic book. I enjoyed the "comic-book" like action with the added plus of being one of the definitive first works of cyber-punk fiction. Great pace all the way through the book. When I finished, all I could think was "damn, it's over". Loved the name "Hiro Protaganist", and all the other literary "easter-eggs". Buy it, Read it. Seriously, No Regrets.
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Summary: fantastic novel
Review: This novel lived up to all the hype surrounding it and then some. I read it in very quickly. It was very hard to put it down, yet it was interesting as well. I really liked all the main characters and a lot of the technologies used in the novel. Stephenson obviously put a lot of time into researching for this novel, and gives it a nice twist to make it seem very plausible. (for a sci-fi novel) I really can't wait to read his other novels.
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Summary: It took me 2 days to read this
Review: I could not put this book down, from the first two chapters on i was hooked. The Sumerian legend was emaculately intertwined throughout this novel and in my opinion was what made it different. This is not just another cyberpunk book.....this is THE cyberpunk book. I do agree with one of the other reviewers that i was wondering where the last few chapeters were. I read the about the author hoping it would give me the closure i so sorely needed. READ THIS BOOK.
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Summary: Lost interest during the reading
Review: I read snow crash's beginning fast. But as I came to the future lineout with people living in a future internet-universe, with chaos, that were reflected in the real-world outside, I was slowing down the reading. It might very well be one outline of the future. But I serious don't believe in it. The Nerds in the book, were not evn real nerds, and people and the world seemed lost without direction. A guy riding around with a hydrogen bomb ? That is where I stopped.
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Summary: Domino's Schmomino's - Cosa Nostra Pizza's the Best!
Review: In this novel (about the fifth or sixth cyberpunk novel I've read), I was really taken with the way Stephenson made the corporate states so pervasive. Of course, powerful corporations are at the heart of most cyberpunk novels, but here they completely take the place of nations (well, almost). I also enjoyed the humor apparent in the novel - I mean, really, the main good guy is named Hiro Protagonist! And the image of the Mafia Pizza guy in my mind is just too funny. You want pepperoni with that? Forget about it!
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Summary: A great book but has a few drawbacks
Review: Stephenson is a great writer but seems to have the (unfortunate) tendency to cut his books off just as the final climax is occuring. I was looking for the next chapter when I realized I was reading "About the Author." (WARNING: potential spoilers ahead). Although I enjoyed Snow Crash immensely, I was left wondering what the hell was going to happen to most of the characters at the end, namely: Raven, Uncle Enzo, Y.T., Hiro and Jaunita - or just about every major character in the book. I didn't feel their parts were fully played yet. For instance, what about Raven's nuclear bomb? Was he wounded when his knives shattered? Does Y.T.'s Mom still work at Fedland even though they almost got her daughter killed? Also, L. Bob Rife's character didn't seem very realistic to me and a few things about the metavirus were also sketchy. I had similar questions at the end of Diamond Age. Still though, the book was very funny, had interesting scenes, characters and high-tech gadgets and even with my questions, I'd highly recommend it to anyone who likes this (or any) type of sci-fi.
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Summary: Wonderful!
Review: This book is incredible! It reads with a very fast pace, and never really gets boring or slow at any point. Neal Stephenson has definitely done his research, as the information on Sumerian myth is incredibly detailed and rich. The book has a lot of action and it's also a great satire of what today's culture may become in the future. I loved this book!
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Summary: An incredible, comic, yet entertaining read
Review: That's why they call it fiction. The characters are crazy and a bit scary too. He has taken some of our most serious social problems; drugs, organized crime, the internet, hackers, corporate greed; and extrapolated them into an extremley entertaining, although unbelievable tale. No, this is not going to happen to America. Read the book though, I think you will enjoy it. If you like Stephenson, you must also check out "Transfer: the end of the begining," by author Jerry Furland. Then you will know where America is really headed.
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