スノウ・クラッシュ

Great, just great. I read it quite a while ago, and got the kindlized version just to reRead it again.

I'd heard a lot about this book, but I just couldn't get into it. After reading for a couple hours, nothing had really happened in the plot. The post-modernist style of writing is jarring and not welcoming to a casual reader. It might have been visionary at its time, but now the book is just boring.

Completely off the wall plot but highly readable. A view of the future that is pretty scary but quite possible

One of the classics of cyberpunk, a rip roaring ride through a world disturbingly like our own, but written well before the ills we accept as normal today. A hacker slices his way through a cruel reality where capitalism has won the final battle and sits smiling on a rotten throne, and hacks his way through a virtual reality world that is, somehow, even more frightening. Meanwhile a bad-ass skateboarding girl takes on the bad guys, ancient religions, the mafia and even the U.S. Government on 4 wheels at maximum velocity.

Not for the timid or easily offended, Snow Crash is the best of Stephenson concentrated down into a quick read that will make you want to goggle into the multiverse, grab your katanas and do some hacking of your own.

I read it long ago and felt like rereading it for nostalgia's sake. I remembered it better than it was but it's still a solid novel and a fun read.

My second Stephenson book, after Cryptonomicon. Very enjoyable, good action and funny, but lighter on character development and clumsier on exposition of historical facts. Scary to think about when it was written and how prescient it was.

This has to be one of the more surprisingly entertaining reads I've ever had the pleasure to enjoy. It starts off with a seemingly ridiculous premis, but eventually becomes an engrossingly complex (though not too much so) and worthwhile cyberpunk tale with an almost satirical whiz and bang throughout. I mean come on, someone with the audacity to name their main character Hiro Protagonist has to back it up with real cleverness. And Mr. Stephenson does just that. A real classic.

Neal Stephenson is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors!

Sumerian myth. Tower of Babel. Virtual Reality. Making puppets of people controlled by radio. Programmers vulnerable to a destroyer visual signal. Mafia, Religious fervor based on a privately owned aircraft carrier and an Inuit with a hydrogen fusion bomb that surfs ocean waves to get around the world. Oh yeah, and some stuff I forgot, like the story's protagonist, Hiro. But I can't tell it all like Neil does, no way.

Fast, funny, inventive. The Metaverse sequences are like Tron on crack. I highly recommend it.

A fun read.

I chose to read this book after a suggestion from a friend and it has definitely been a pleasant surprise. Although, I primarily read techno-thriller novels this book has certain aspects such as its technical jargon I really like.

there was a beautiful "masque of the red death" esque imagery set towards the end that i loved.

Slow start but picked up steam along the way and was interesting enough to see it through. I really enjoyed it...

Love this book. Got it for my son

Second time for me. I re-read this after reading all of,his other books. I still dig it, you will too.

Many of the reviews here already sum this book up nicely. It is a fast paced, whacky comic book romp with some (imho) excellent vision of a cyber-future considering that it was written in the early '90s. There are the usual Neal Stephenson components - excellent characters that you grow to really like, crazy action and a complicated geeky main premise that can make your head hurt. A good read that sucks you in but doesn't quite deliver the neat ending(s) I was hoping for

I really enjoyed reading Snow Crash. The first couple of chapters were painful though. Just get through the first couple, and the book goes in a much better direction.

The main plot was really interesting and made me think a lot.

It's an incredibly cool book. If you love the first chapter you'll love the book because it keeps that whole awesome tone the whole book.
The book's only problem is the three or four chapters spent educating the reader's on ancient Sumerian religions. I would recommend that you skim or skip literally every chapter that has Hiro talking to the librarian. To say that they're detailed is putting it mildly.
I honestly think the book would be perfect if those chapters were completely removed.

Anyway awesome book apart from that.