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Interesting book. Thanks.

Hilarious and hyperbolic exploration of the world ours is becoming. Stephenson's classic is a must-read for anyone vaguely interested in the ways in which technology and corporatization impact our way of living.

The omega of cyber punk by one of the best authors in the genre!

The book and the many ideas in it make for rivetting reading. The end is somewhat predictable and the beginning of the "action sequences" is also the start of the slow fade into "standard" fiction.

Great book with a really engaging story. Reading as research for the game that we're working on at Dream Harvest Games.

This is a good book for anybody big into scifi, although I will say the theology in the middle of the book gets to be a bit of a slog, and the ending was a bit abrupt and sudden. I really love the prose.

It's not Shakespeare, but it's still one of my favourite books. Even now in the 21st century I would argue it still stands out as a great work of scifi. Recommended.

Recommended by a friend, now I recommend to you.

i dont read many things more than twice, but when i do, its snow crash

Fantastic book.

Ecellent read

I have not read a ton of sci-fi books, but I heard this was recommended and gave it a shot.
The plot and characters are really out there... very complex and not something you would ever expect.
The book was interesting and captivating at most times, but it really slows down when it gets to explaining an underlying psycho-linguistic theory (connecting the origin of humanity and development of language) that moves the plot. It feels as though the book was written around this theory and not the other way around, don't know if it's such a good thing.

If you like sci-fi and also have deep interest in ancient civilization and language theory - this book could be just for you!
If not, still a very nice book but not a must...

How could you even ask me how this is? You should know! Give the kindle version to your AI algorithms! Let them get excited about 90's cyberpunk as the rest of us are.

Excellent cyberpunk!

One of the best Cyberpunk novels every written. Entertaining and fast moving.

I found this novel fantastically ahead of it's time--being penned in '92. The cast of characters was VERY WELL thought out, and it held incredible promise as it began and reached a prolonged fever pitch...but why did the finale have to de-evolve into the archaicly redundant "final battle?"

Warning - spoiler alert!!

This book was written over 20 years ago, and I am writing this 2 days after the terror attacks in Paris which have resulted in 129 dead and 99 critically injured. I finished reading the book at about the same time as these attacks occurred. In the book many refugees are heading for America, and some very bad people are manipulating the situation. I know how it all finishes in the book, but am not at all sure how the similar situation in Europe will work out in reality.

Stephenson has also done a very good job of constructing a world with a highly developed online component, which comes across as futuristic even now, despite the developments in that field since the book was published in 1992. The future world depicted is believable, and there is another factor which struck me - the inability of a particular minor character to keep up with the changes in society sufficiently to understand the life of her teenage daughter. This has always been an issue in society, of course, but in a society changing as rapidly as the one depicted here, or even in ours, here in reality today, many suffer from "Future Shock" in the sense Alvin Toffler meant it.

This is one of the rare books that has been put in my "Read Again" collection, because it is so clever and complex that I doubt whether I have grasped all of it properly.

Fun read and although getting old still applies to today's technology.

I started off a bit lost but still a great book.

One of my favorite books of all time. A super fresh-feeling sci fi with cyberpunk undertones that will make you keep reading until you reach the end. The writing style is very unique and interesting, which could be a turnoff for some, but I just ate it up.

A great plot that keeps you guessing and a world you won't want to leave when it's done.