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| Third time reading this book. Gets better each time (Prob bc I'm not a coder). This and Diamond Age are two of my favs. It's neat to see where technology has come compared to what Stephenson wrote in the 90's. Worth the read fo sho | ||||
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| Neal Stephenson hat ein gutes Händchen dafür, in seinen Romanen auch Wissen zu vermitteln. In Snow Crash ist das weniger der Fall, dafür hat das Buch mehr Wumms :-D Über Stilblüten wie Schwertkampf im Internet muss man dann halt hinweg sehen. Insgesamt sehr lesenwert aber nicht so unglaublich gut wie das Cryptonomicon oder The Diamond Age. | ||||
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| Wooden characters, choppy prose and present tense. I'd give this a single star, but it had some interesting ideas. That was the only thing saving it. Skip this if you like good character development. | ||||
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| Thanks so much - great deal + perfect shipping and condition! AAAAAAAA++++ | ||||
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| Highly overrated... | ||||
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| I don't share the complete awe that many reviewers hold for this book, but I have to say it's fresh (for a 1990 offering), thoughtful, fun, and stimulating. The author has done a great job of projecting technology trends that are actually true now, as well as offering some satirical and hilarious twists. The central conceit, that the brain is hard-wired for language and can be "infected" by a "virus" made of language, is fascinating. If you are a fan of computers and/or the future, check it out. | ||||
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| Awful. I read the first couple of chapters and then flicked forward to see if the writing style was going to switch or something (as if the first bit was maybe a fantasy), but it seemed to carry on in a style that was so difficult to read. The last book I gave up on was when I overstretched myself by trying to read The Hobbit when I was 9. I deleted this one from my Kindle. I'm at a loss as to its appeal. | ||||
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| I will next read Neuromancer (get ready, Amazon) after I found myself strongly agreeing with Psychlist's review of Jan 3, '15. I felt that Snowcrash had a good theme, which to me was based on an extreme overextended analogy between Computer viruses, memes or mind viruses, and the old fashioned DNA/RNA kind. That is what speculative sci/fi is supposed to trade on anyway. But like most all the successful writers of future history, the author only extends popular and famous trends to their extreme ends. It kinda reminds me of novels about the 21st century, written at the same time as this book (1989-1992), in which the Soviet Union played a prominent role. The tech displayed in Snowcrash is dated now, as other reviewers observed. Action scenes are well-written and engaging. The book starts off like Hollywood, with the reader dropped into a crazy action scene in which some of the basic tenets of the book are laid out. The over-the-top action is self deprecating where it needs to be to maintain suspension of disbelief. The fist half of the book reads like a 'who-is-doing-it' thriller as the funky good guys learn more of what is going on and make contacts with the good honchos whose work they are inadvertently doing. Protagonist (yes, that is the family name of the main character) also gets to know the violent bad guys and their special powers as the first half of the story unfolds. Spoiler Alert The mid section is dominated by discussions between Protagonist and a Watson-like archival program, called the Librarian, who informs Protagonist of the connection, down through history of between various viruses; starting with a space borne "metavirus" that seeds all life; going to an improbable theory that, in the beginning, human language tended to coalesce rather than fragment; turning to Sumerian myths and a putative Enki, who was a neurolinguistic hacker who wrote a mind blowing incantation that literally tore the fabric of his culture to pieces, causing Babel and the break up of humanity into competing tribes (something deemed good because unity was causing stagnation): then on to classical antiquity in which champions of the old unity battled those who liked the competing/warring states state of affairs; finally to the present in which the big bad guy has gotten his mitts on the Ancient Sumerian written viruses and is using them to reestablish a unified world of babbling fools under his power. He infects computers with advanced malware, and infects hackers directly with a bitmap that hits their optic nerves, because they have "bits and bytes wired into their psyche" after lifetimes of coding. The rest of us he can mumble the Sumerian verbal malware to and it goes right to our brain bios and scrambles our internal logic. Where is the Government of the United States of America in all this? It has apparently become a willing and minor accomplice to the big bad guy, and the US Navy is nowhere about when a flotilla of millions of his infected South and East Asian refugees (called 'refus") are about to be dumped onto CA by him. The language used at first to describe this made me wonder if a bit of "Camp of the Saints" was coming at me, but given that Protagonist is black/Korean and the big bad guy is a Texan who goes by the name "L. Bob," this was a false supposition. The author even throws in a scene in which a straw-man racist-bigot becomes sushi at the end of Protagonist's katana. L. Bob and the President of the US, who no one recognizes until he reminds them, are in the plot together, and are trying to disempower the good guys--the Mafia and a Hong Kong magnate (I assume Triad, for the power he wields) who just want a peaceful breakup of the country and world in "franchulates," sovereign little territorial bits of turf. I forgot to diagram the plot as I read. This would have helped keep things in perspective. The book did end all too abruptly with L. Bob, and presumably the nondescript POTUS, dying on the LAX runway as their getaway jet is smashed by a good "rat-thing," a dead dog, reanimated like RoboCop, and able crack the sound barrier when excited (here, fido, lets play your favorite, chase and catch the 9mm bullet). Our Protagonist had exited the book many pages earlier after thwarting a logic bomb attempt to fry the minds of the World's code writers. A tertiary character, the head of the good Mafia, though an old man, defeats L. Bob's best, glass knife wielding, henchman extraordinaire on the tarmac, and then the secondary character, a girl named "Y.T." walks out of LAX to get a ride home with her mom in the last sentence. It just felt like an editor told the author that he had to end the novel before it passed 500 paperback pages. The novel could have used a summary chapter to explain how his future world was ordered, and just what was the 'good' outcome, the events leading up to it, we could anticipate, and a bit on how all the main characters lived happily ever after, I'm so old fashioned. | ||||
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| fast ship. Great read. | ||||
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| Don't understand what this is about! Don't understand the language! What a waste of money pity there is no negative star rating. | ||||
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| Reader is really good. Has lots of convincing voices for the different characters. Story is entertaining. Excellent prediction of the future. Started listening to it because of a high recommendation from a Computer Science professor. I give it only four stars because it has lots of F-bombs. | ||||
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| This is the first Neal Stephenson book that I've read, having ordered it due to recommendations online, and I was very pleased with it. It starts right off the bat with a lot of action and you are immediately thrown into a new age where pizza delivery is one of the most important jobs. Well, as you can predict, Hiro is given a pizza with very little time left to make the delivery. My favorite part about the book is how indepth the author goes into the history of the world, and how certain things happening came to be. | ||||
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| Entertaining read and some interesting ideas, but after reading Cryptonomicon and Anathem, did not find it to be as intellectually stimulating or as captivating a story. Though that is probably due to my personal interests... | ||||
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| This book ranked highly on one of those "100 Best Novels of All Time" lists, with a disproportionate number of votes. I think either the ballot box was stuffed, or there's some huge underground fan base for this book who all encouraged each other to vote. Other reviews here mention Neuromancer by Wm Gibson, which I really enjoyed, but Snow Crash does not measure up to that league. It's a little too over-the-top silly sometimes, in its attempts to be funny. | ||||
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| Snow Crash has a thrill-a-minute plot, engaging characters, and enough technology to please any young fantasy reader. Which I am not. While the above story elements kept me reading, the skewed references to the U.S., its government policies and its history, along with plenty of obvious or obscure cultural hints, kept me completely engaged. The nearly constant humor was a huge plus. This book is really, really funny. I enjoyed this book and am looking forward to more by this author. | ||||
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| Great book | ||||
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| You like sci-Fi? You like cyber punk? Buy this book and learn what it's all really about. Not recommended for the religious, due to some parts bordering on non-fictional. | ||||
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| I never should have waited so long to read this classic work of cyberpunk history. Unique would be a good word to describe it...a breath of fresh air from the past. Still plenty if room to see so many of these ideas turn up in new stories-unlike count zero tidbits showing up in the matrix, snow crash is still open for exploitation as a fertile source of new ideas. It felt great to experience something truly unique! | ||||
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| I honestly prefer "Ready Player One" a bit more (5 stars there all day long), but Snow Crash is a bit of a classic in this genre. I have found that some of the minute details are easy to miss if I read too fast, because so much is packed into every chapter. The story is enthralling and fun, from the perspective of sci-fi/VR fiction, and I am likely to read more in this genre because of this book, and RPO. | ||||
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| Good smart story, liked the characters and the Tron-like premise, the ending was a little dicey but overall a good read | ||||
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