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I have loved this book since a friend recommended it in high school. Be prepared for a pretty heavy information dump right in the middle, but the plot and characters are outstanding, and it's one of my top 5 desert island all-time favorite books. Had to get a new copy because a jerk in college drenched it and didn't replace it.

How many books have you read where the Hero/Protagonist's name is Hiro Protagonist? If you think that means the book is just a satire and the characters are one-dimensional, you couldn't be more wrong. Set in a not-too-unrecognizable dystopian future where conglomerates run entire neighborhoods like mini fifedoms, Hiro is a super hacker in the Matrix like world much of the population inhabits, as well as the real one. One of the best books I've read on a recommendation, and glad I did. Still holds up after multiple readings. Neal Stephenson at his absolute finest, you'll be hooked on his style as soon as you're finished with this one. Waiting for the movie adaptation still, seems like it's in development hell for a while. Until then, read the book - it's got humor, history, religion, anthropology, futurism, and a lot more for any reader willing to peek into Stephenson's world.

One of my favorites. Have given Snow Crash to many people as a gift, it is awesome, page after page.

I love Neal's depth of imagination, the way he finds connections between ideas that are seemingly worlds apart. Another great read:)

I enjoyed reading this book.

Started out very strangely - but two chapters in I was completely immersed in an interesting future. Cyberpunk Political Sci-Fi at it's finest

Not for everyone. Very on the nose, over the top exaggeration of America mixed with some great sci fi elements.

This book is so fun!!! Very imaginative, good plot, great characters. Was recommended by a friend - I wasn't expecting to like it. Nice surprise - I enjoyed it!

I feel bad to join the two star crowd here. I love SF and I bought the paper version when I found this title on a list of the best 10 SF books to read (which shows how subjective our tastes are). Well, now I know I don't like cyberpunk or at least I don't like Neal Stephenson's writing. Sorry Neal, there are some great ideas and imagery in your book but I got bored after the first quarter. Just to give an idea of what kind of SF books I like here are few of the authors I admire: Arthur C. Clark, Isaac Asimov, Strugatsky Brothers, Stanislav Lem, Ursula K. Le Guin, etc.

This book was a really fun ride. I highly recommend reading snow crash on Kindle because of the many historical and religious references. You can use the Kindle dictionary and it has links to Wikipedia. To truly understand the book this is necessary. Your other alternative is to constantly have a dictionary with you or be in front of a computer screen to Google things.

Loved it

It is fascinating book considering it was written in 92. It has high speed internet, drones, and virtual reality stuff in it, along with some interesting different communities. And the story is pretty fun. However, I had hard time reading about all the Sumerian 'magic' language stuff so I gave it 4/5.

Great invention work that installs this novel as the standard for postcyberpunk. Couldn't put it down.
On par with other major Stephenson novels.

The visions of future technology is much talked about. The Metaverse and VR are jointly at the top of the hype cycle
But it is the predictions in the vision of the real world that is truly frightening
Frightening because it is our direction of travel. Listen to pro-Brexit visions and Mr. Trumps desires and you see the future from here coming into focus.
Where is Hiro to save us?

A cross between the matrix and Indiana jones. Lots of action. The explanation of the world from a politics perspective is prett warped. Corps may run the government but the government isn't another Corp. that part needed some more of xplanation

This book painted a beautiful picture

Hailed as one of the defining classics of the 'cyberpunk' subgenre of SF, I'm probably reading 'Snow Crash' a good 20 years after the concepts it portrayed were groundbreaking, but it still holds up pretty well as a novel. Bouncing between the exploits of a sword-wielding pizza delivery driver/hacker, and a courier who hitches lifts by harpooning passing vehicles, the early chapters in particular are breathtaking. There is an assured swagger to Stephenson's prose, with wild action and a vivid setting in a future USA that has been transformed into a series of semi-autonomous corporate-owned suburbs, whilst the idea of a language that can rewrite human brains is a suitably heavyweight SF concept.It's not flawless however, as the longer the book goes on, the more the tongue in cheek humour develops into an over-the-top comicbook-style sensibility. Ultimately, it becomes impossible to take any of it seriously, and it doesn't so much draw to a satisfying close as suddenly stop.

There are is still plenty here to enjoy, and many of Stephenson's obsessions are readily apparent - but ultimately, though this may have been groundbreaking at the time, I feel that some of Stephenson's later books ('Cryptonomicon' and 'The Baroque Trilogy') are simply better written.

I enjoyed the conversations with the Librarian--the religious/historic events and how they intertwine and shed light on the issue at hand. I was hooked with style of the first chapter about the Deliverator (and later the chapter from the doggie's POV). Aside from doggie-POV, it was confusing why the author employed such differing writing styles in different chapters. Overall, I kept having the feeling that I didn't know where the plot was going. You could argue that's a good thing (e.g it's unpredictable), but I just never felt like I got the "point" of the book. It was entertaining in many places.

I would only recommend this to a preteen with a poor grasp of reality. Total garbage. Only read it because it showed up on a beat sci-if list. How it got there I'll never know.
Don't bother- unless juvenile wish fulfillment is your thing.

Good read and hard to put down. I try not to give out 5 stars unless it is a book I find will stick with me. This one won't but I'd still recommend it. Enjoy the read.