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| Interesting story line with a bunch of twists and turns. Finished it so fast because I couldn't put it down. Sci-fi cyberpunk at its finest. | ||||
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| The ending was a huge disappointment- no resolution for any of the main characters or villains, just a bit of inference about where they were headed. The only storyline resolved was the arch villain that you hear about all book but only meet at the end, so I was far more invested in the others. That aside, it’s a fantastic book. It’s a little chunky at times and could use some polish, but the story and ideas are not something you’re likely to read anywhere else, and the rough edges has its appeal once you get into the tempo. The middle of the book was the highlight for me, where they start wrapping in ancient Sumerian culture to this world. Overall a fascinating read; it would’ve been five stars if there had just been one more chapter at the end giving a little more character resolution. | ||||
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| I didn't expect this book at all. It's a familiar take on the artificial reality like Ready Player One and also is set a distopian future. But I loved the characters and had no idea where the story was going. I was hooked and read just about all of it in one day! | ||||
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| Techno thriller in cyberspace with some irl infighting added. A great discussion about languages- human and computer, why they exist and the meaning of Babel. Could have left the old guy and young girl fantasies out though. | ||||
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| Fantastic. What a ride. Amazing. Stevenson explores the foundations of language in the human brain. | ||||
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| Snow Crash is really hard to put down once you start reading. Neil Stephenson takes the reader through a strikingly familiar world and predicts much of the present and future we live in. You won’t regret reading this novel. | ||||
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| Worth the time to read it. Says a lot about books these days. Not your average SCIFi alien post apocalyptic book. Honestly I had no idea where it was going at times but it always flowed. Several twists right up to the finale which was completely unexpected and yet given the book totally plausible. As the reader I just completely missed it. Definitely worth it. | ||||
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| And it was worth the wait. Stephenson is an excellent author, and weaves a story as well as anyone in his genre. I would stay and write an even longer recommendation, but I bought two more of his books while reading this one, and I need to go read them now. | ||||
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| Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson was published in 1992 a full seven years before Al Gore claimed he invented the internet. In that context it’s very fitting that Stephenson would claim he invented the word Avatar so many years in advance of the necessary technology. Although Stephenson recanted, after he discovered that he had not actually invented the word Avatar. Nevertheless, he filled 500 pages with other important ideas about Avatars and the Internet. Almost 20 years later, Ernest Cline's great novel, "Ready Player One", would capitalize on both concepts in mega fashion resulting in a blockbuster movie with Stephen Spielberg producing along with a sequel, “Ready Player Two”. Some quick research reveals Snow Crash may finally find its way onto the screen as a mini-series now some 30 years. I can’t wait, but I also digress… giving credit where credit is due, Cline's book is better, but the Oasis, is the Metaverse, Stephenson was first in. Thus, make no mistake, Snow Crash is an important book. The most important Chapter is 56 if you want to cut straight to the chase. In it, Stephenson brings the entire "Metaverse" of his creation into the concept upon which the book has been based. Specifically, all human reality, at least the part we make sense of in our consciousness, is only possible through the language embedded in our main processor, our brain. Consciousness does not exist without language. Let’s remember this is called science fiction, and I note, some of the critical remarks made about Snow Crash, specifically refute this particular claim. This is an unfair critique for multiple reasons, not the lease of which, perhaps, is to note that all current advances in evolutionary biology, and all current evolutionary biologist, owe their science to perhaps one book, “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, by Julian Jaynes. This book, although not a novel, or science fiction, has been heavily divorced of any real tie to science or biology, nevertheless, it remains at the forefront of the science of “What if?”. And the questions still remain. I mention Jaynes because Stephenson indicated that his book was an influencing factor upon which he based some of his fictional speculation. Now as off as Stephenson could be with regard to the notion that language programs our consciousness, he is not wrong that language programs our computers. Not human language however, machine language. The language of “one’s” and “zero’s” that are used to program a computer. Unfortunately, Stephenson isn’t perfect there either, but the analogy is strong enough. What if? What this means, then, is that just as a hacker can hack a computer with the right injection of malicious code, someone intent on brain washing a human, need only hack them in the right language and inject their malicious message straight into your brain. But just like a hacker doesn’t attack the source code, or the multitude of potential higher-level languages we use to program computers, the adroit hacker attacks the operating system, the code embedded on the hardware in the brain of the computer, it’s processor. Stephenson correctly reaches into the basic of Neuro-Linguistic Programing, or NLP which is to many charlatans, the source of their magic power. NLP can be studied in the book “The Structure of Magic” from 1975, by Richard Bandler. What follows is a powerful saga. Ninja-come-hacker pizza delivery boy meets skate-boarding-message-delivery girl (safe-space trigger warning, she’s 15 years old) in a coming-of-age story across the barren landscape of a suburban environment undergoing economic collapse where the only respite from hard work and religious assimilation is the escape into the Virtual Reality of the Metaverse. It wasn’t a quest for the “keys” to solve the puzzle as in “Ready Player One” but a quest to find the source of the drug “Snow Crash”. A drug so powerful that it reprograms your brain simply by looking at the code. Their epic journey together takes the reader deep into a re-envisioned Mafia, where the God Father is a grandfatherly figure whose only real concern is making sure his pizzas are delivered on time, and deep into the heart of Sumerian culture where human language, as we know it, was both invented and destroyed. Invented, when everyone spoke the same language, and destroyed at the Tower of Babble, when many languages emerged and no one could communicate. Seems like they didn’t have a very good open standard or set of APIs back then, or in their future, either. Stephenson explored more than his virtual Metaverse. He explored artificial intelligence with “Daemons’ being useful servants in the Metaverse, in particular his speaking librarian who could answer any question but couldn’t understand certain context is right out of Google. He explored robotics both with the prosthetics that helped the disabled navigate reality while in virtual reality, and of course his lovable “Rat-Things” which were simply reimagined dogs akin to the robotic animals of Philip K. Dick’s “Do Android’s Dream of Electric Sheep” from the sixties, except Rat-Things are a lot faster. In the end the book is too long and it was difficult for me to read. In fact, the first time I tried to read it was in 2015 and bailed after the first 90 pages. I reengaged during a recent drive to Florida, and then one to Ohio, did I mention it’s a long book, where I turned up the narration to 1.5X. At that speed it was fast moving and engaging. But still took forever. It is an important book packed and repacked with concepts we will always return too. Start with 5-Stars for “Snow Crash” and this epic and important entry into the world of VR novels. Deduct 1-star for strained an obtuse language struggling to be entertaining…and his Asian Rap lyrics. Horrible and most likely a bit politically incorrect these days. Deduct 1-star for the audacity to claim ownership of ideas that came before him. Add 1-star back for his undeniable love of dogs. He calls them doggies. And when doggies live in Virtual Reality, they run on endless beaches, eat steak, and catch frisbees. I want a rat-thing of my own... 4-Stars for this cyber-space classic! | ||||
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| I liked how Stephenson amalgamated many of the scholars who help him with academic research into the librarian character in the book. That was very thoughtful of Mr. Stephenson. | ||||
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| Loved this book 20 years ago, read it again this week and yup, it’s still insanely clever and amusing. Wish they’d made the film. | ||||
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| This book is a blast, has a strong message. Highly recommend | ||||
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| The book is very fun and silly, often leaning more into satire than scifi. The plot is sufficiently complex with plenty of twist and turns. The characters are fun, but other than the primary two, no development really happens. The world is fun and the author builds it up to a satisfactory level. Overall very enjoyable albeit silly read. | ||||
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| I consider this book to be the Blade Runner of boss within the Sci-Fi/Cyberpunk genre. An absolute must read. One of the very few books I've read over 4 times. | ||||
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| One of the definitive Cyberpunk novels that all Shadowrunners should read. | ||||
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| Snow Crash und The Diamond Age sind die besten, wobei man bei Snow Crash über die veraltete Technik hinwegsehen muss, ich sage nur 65535. Dafür kommt in Snow Crash sozusagen mein WinGlobe vor. | ||||
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| Absolute banger of a novel. Probably the best cyberpunk novel I've read. If you like sci fi, cyberpunk or most of all, linguistics then this is a fun albeit short ride. | ||||
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| Fast pace cyberpunk by Neal Stephenson. Overall good paperback but page quality can be improved slightly, but nice book. | ||||
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| I've read Snow Crash probably a dozen times. I've assigned it in a class I taught so I've re-read it whenever my students were also reading it so it would be fresh in my mind. I have no regrets about reading it so many times... it has been enjoyable each time. I am now reading Neal Stephenson's SevenEves; he is a wonderful writer and really gets you thinking. | ||||
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| It hits an excellent balance between having an intresting mystery while still keeping the plot coherent and backs it up with solid characters, a good sense of humour, great writing style and some really solid action. | ||||
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