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I listen to books on CD as I drive. After 45 minutes of this book I turned it off it just was so much of a jumbled and fast-paced story. Plus it seemed that the narrator was speed reading it. A few days later I continued with the story, got drawn in and hung on. I've read and listen to Neil Stephenson books for a few years now. This was so bizarre I can't help but feel sorry for people who live near, live with or are friends with Neal Stephenson
How can they keep up with him?

Not finished as of yet. Enjoying the book immensely. Very creative in time tripping believable fantasy to come.

A must read

Good book

Stephenson develops interesting multidimensional characters and puts them in a dystopian future ripe for fun. He might spend a little too much time explaining the evil plot of the villain, but he makes up for it with a creative view of the future and a tremendous sense of humor.

cyberpunk on LSD - what a ride!

As many as they'll let me. That's my answer to Amazon's question: "How many stars would you give Snow Crash?" It isn't perfect; Neal Stephenson has a bad habit (which can be fatal to the careers of young science fiction writers) of trying to explain in detail how the things he invented for a story (eg [in general, not specific to Neal Stephenson] transportation, communications, money, government, society) work. But in this novel, the concept is so high, the scope so broad, the characters (especially the two main ones) are so great, the story is just so big . . . that I didn't even notice he was doing it here, too, the first dozen times I read it

I used to read this story (& half a dozen others) every year. Recently I noticed that I hadn't read it in a few years. I quickly realized that this was because I no longer buy words printed on paper, & no longer look at my bookshelves. So I bought the Kindle edition

Tell a friend to read it before someone makes it into a movie! Easily the most fun I've had reading a book in quite some time. No wonder all the nerds love it

This book was incredibly fun. I learned a lot - about binary, computer systems, linguistics, ancient history. The characters are fascinating, and you want to know more. The themes are also very relevant today.

awesome!

awesome

One of the most satisfying and substantive book ever written. One's mind is satisfied. A good meal for the brain. Don't miss this one.

I enjoyed the originality and pulse of the world that Stephenson has fleshed out in this novel. Very entertaining. An odd scary and somehow comical United States.

Amazing read for the sci-fi folk, keeps you well entertained and always lusting for more and more pages. Worth my money.

I am both in love and completely over the book at the same time. Talk about confusing. Snow Crash reads like watching The Matrix for the first time-- it's mind blowing, action-packed, brilliant, and annoying all at the same time. That said, I couldn't put it down. Stephenson rebooted the cyberpunk genre with this novel, and for good reason. But it runs you over a bit like a steamroller. So, instead I am giving you a loves/hates list-- it's all my brain can handle:

Loves:
• Hiro Protagonist
• The Librarian
• The Metaverse
• Fido
• Pizza Delivery
• Futuristic Punk Rock
• Futuristic skateboards
• Brilliant aggressive rape-protectant

Hates:
• YT
• Uncle Enzo
• The "real world" and their franchised spaces
• L Bob Rife and that whole religion thing
• Metaphysical, philosophical, political, and tech-related diatribes
• ANYTIME Sumer/Enki was mentioned. Kill me. Kill me now.

In the end, I think the best way to describe this novel is as a train wreck. A beautiful, beautiful train wreck. It's a chaotic blend of great and terrible, beautiful and ugly, clean and messy. But I couldn't look away. And even now that it's done, I know I'll never read it again… but I REALLY want to. Drat. I might be addicted.

Hard to believe that this is 25 years old. Not sure why it's taken me 25 years to get around to reading it. Yes, much of it is absurd, but I found it very enjoyable.

When I read Snow Crash, I was amazed that the book was written in the early 90s. It accurately describes many of the technologies we now not only have, but have access to every day. For this alone, it is worth a read. Stephenson predicted a lot of what we now take for granted in day to day life and it is really kind of awesome.

From a prose stand point, this is not the easiest book to read. There is plenty of tech jargon (some of it made up) and a lot of linguistics vocabulary you might need to parse as you are reading. Also, his description of the corporate states is a little head scratching at first, but I feel pretty confident in saying that if you ignore it early on, you'll get it by the end.

Otherwise, it is an entertaining yarn. I didn't like it as much the 2nd time I read it, but I still think it is a very good book.

Not my favorite Stephenson novel, but still learned something about history. Fun vision of corporate America taking over all aspects of functioning government.

great story...ending kind of dissapoints

Fantastic dystopian future world full with interesting and harsh extrapolations of today society and some cool creative interpretation of early religion. This book has a lot going for it! It falls on star short because by the end of the book I couldn't care less about what happened to the "Hiro" and actually was more concerned with the couple supporting characters that weren't a one dimensional stereotype. This book is a fun romp that striving to make some interesting observations on the vim diagram of society/religion/computers but is as clumsy at it as a 15 year-old boy in a darkened girls bedroom