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Mar 24, 2024Fishbone_the_brave rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Original, future thinking setting. Extremely boring characters that I didn't care about at all. Checked it off the list of "classics" but I'll never read it again.
Jan 12, 2024Lord_Vad3r rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This was pure insanity. It starts out as a story about the Mafia's pizza delivery driver and turns into a lecture on neurolinguistics before becoming a morality tale about poor impulse control! It is the source of the metaverse however. Be…
Dec 30, 2023fredghostkyle rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
This was a fascinating read, the author coined the term Metaverse and he really does describe a metaverse that seems plausible in the future. While the interface to access it is unrealistic, the actual concept is great. There was a big…
May 18, 2023StephenWust rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
Like many science fiction books from that era, Snow Crash is seriously dated. I am sure that when it first came out, the metaverse, mind (and computer) control, the internet, and corporate takeover of the world made for compelling and…
Dec 16, 2022
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Sep 24, 2022Rendezvous_point rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This was an amazing book. I was hooked right from the beginning and read it straight till the end. What's weird is that normally highly technical descriptions are a turn off for me in a book, but in Snow Crash every single one of them hit…
Jul 01, 2022sdb177 rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
Sign of bad writing: when page after page is merely more and more exposition, mistaken for plot and provided to fool you in to thinking it is plot. Serious problem with that here. Overwhelming and underwhelming simultaneously. Big…
May 13, 2022dela_b rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
What do you mean the pizza delivery had nothing to do with the plot? The mafia owner plays a critical role later in the story, not to mention getting the two main characters connected. I am an OLD person but I like sci-fi so read this book…
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Mar 31, 2022wingertdj rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
“Snow Crash” by Neal Stephenson was written in 1992 and first used the term Metaverse. For the most part I found this to be a great read. The two main characters are 1) a pizza delivery guy for the mafia who is a super hacker and warrior…
Mar 12, 2022bell5133 rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
Content warning: the book contains an adult having sex with a minor. There is a lot of cussing and violence. Reminded me of Ready Player One and Jennifer Government, but I liked both of those better than this book. Takes place in a…
Dec 27, 2021tjdickey rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Poetry. Vintage Stephenson is pure, counter-cultural, irreverent, rollicking poetry, and it ages remarkably well in its particular dystopia of over-franchised and gated-community and splintered and bureaucratized society.
Jul 01, 2021pacl_teens rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
"Hiro is a pizza worker and hacker for the mafia, but even he was surprised to find a new narcotic to turn people into mindless minions. Snow Crash by Neal Stephonson is the story following Hiro, a man who works as a pizza man for the…
Jun 14, 2021dgiard rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
It is not easy to make a pizza delivery exciting. But when the delivery takes place in a dystopian future and the pizza franchise is owned by the Mafia and the punishment for late delivery is severe, it can get your pulse racing. And Neal…
Feb 02, 2021JLMason rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I loved every chapter of this brilliant, sci-fi, cyber-punk action adventure classic. Hard to believe it was published almost 30 years ago, because the technologies and the social commentary are still fresh and in some cases visionary.…
Nov 09, 2019CupertinoJay rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Edward Snowden's 2019 biography brought me here.. srsly. See, on Permanent Record's page 64 (hardcover edition) he credits Snow Crash as influential. Turns out I got it from the library as well, but too long ago to remember anymore,…
Nov 09, 2018
A great introduction to Neal Stephenson. A rip roaring adventure through a landscape of our technological fears made into a reality.
Dec 13, 2017ryner rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
Published in 1992 in the days of the internet's infancy, it evoked in me a wistful feeling of nostalgia (I first hopped online in 1994), and for that I am grateful. I was also appreciative and at times amazed by the sheer number of…
Sep 13, 2016sat7 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Intricate, imaginative, and very articulate. I like this author very much. It's not what you think. Keep reading -
Jun 21, 2016Bewondered rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Diamond Age is my favorite by Stephenson, but Snow Crash is a close second.
May 09, 2016
I cannot understand -- when there are good books with hackers as the major character -- why anyone could find this interesting? Good books: Burning Chrome -- William Gibson Brain Jack -- Brian Falkner Romily Bernard's…
Jan 26, 2016Bill_SDPL rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
My first Stephenson book! I really enjoyed it, and I'm anxious to dig into his other novels. It's pretty incredible to consider when this book was published (early 1990s), because many of his fictional predictions have become eerily true.…
Dec 10, 2015JoStelm rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This is a stark view our humankind's not so distant future. The world has been broken apart and separated into albeit smaller, more powerful forces. The United States of America's government has been reduce to several small fenced-in…
TutorialSmith
Sep 02, 2015TutorialSmith rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Of all the long Stephenson books this is probably the fastest read. The pace is great, though as some reviewers have pointed out it does include a lot of monologues on ancient Sumeria and such. The book also includes a description of…
Nov 22, 2013LaPhenixa rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
A very stylized piece, the first few chapters read as though they were written by the characters themselves, though in third person. The writing style seems to be intentionally jarring, making for an interesting read. This is not my genre…
GeoffAbel
Aug 24, 2013GeoffAbel rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Firstly, Neal Stephenson is The Man. This, being one of his early books, is not nearly as polished and pro as Crypto, Silver, Ana....but it is damn fine and an absolute gas. It's not for everyone and his method for expounding the Sumerian…