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Snow Crash

Snow Crash

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Loved this book, even better than Diamond Age
Review: I thought Diamond Age was incredible, until I read Snow Crash. I was fascinated by Snow Crash. Great story, great handle on technology, a history lesson thrown in for the fun of it.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Good, but did somebody tear pages out of the draft???
Review: The book was interesting to read, perhaps a little too hard to comprehend in some places, sometimes due to author's style of writing, sometimes due to wwwWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYyyyy too long descriptions and discussions about the nature or religions, languages, and so on. But that's not really bad, and author had some very interesting and ideas about future tech developments - Kouriers and "doggies" are my favorites. What I really didn't like was inability to make a coherent story - starting from the middle of the book. It's like some pages are missing, and you can't go with the flow - it's not like flowing, it's like jumping from one rock to another down the river. Especially the ending - it SUCKED BIG TIME (IMHO). The book doesn't really have an ending, seems like author was on deadline to finish it, so he just typed a couple of paragraphs and said:"OK, seems to be arright. Here you go." After all the action before that, I was extremely disappointed when I've read the final page :(. I got the book only because one of my friends who have read Gibson's "Neuromancer" said that "Snow Crash" was even better. Well.... NO!!! I wouldn't recommend it to people who had read Gibson's novels - it's very bleak in comparison. And to those who didn't - I wouldn't recommend it either, because after this one they probably wouldn't read other, better, cyberpunk books.

Rating: 3 stars
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.

Rating: 4 stars
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.

Rating: 4 stars
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.

Rating: 5 stars
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.

Rating: 5 stars
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.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One hack of a book!
Review: Nothing but good thing is what I can say about this book

Rating: 3 stars
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.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Absolutely fantastic
Review: That's all I have to say. Insanely great


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