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Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
Snow Crash
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780141886275 (0141886277)
Publisher: Penguin
Edition language: English
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CyberPops
CyberPops rated it
5.0 Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Neuromancer was the first cyberpunk novel I read, but my favourite is Snow Crash. It takes a humourous twist on a cpunk story that I found refreshing, right down to the main character of the story, Hiro Protagonist. Creative and whimsical, this is not a dark tale like most. He also creates some u...
A Man With An Agenda
A Man With An Agenda rated it
4.0 Snow Crash
A friend recommended Neal Stephenson to me with the caveat that I would want to start with one book and, if not avoid, treat the other without the rose-tinted lenses of hype that color it. Flash forward to a used bookstore two weeks later. Both books staring at me from the sf/fantasy shelves. I didn...
piratequeen
piratequeen rated it
2.0 Snow Crash
I can see why people love this book and why it's a genre classic, because it had some truly interesting ideas about culture, language, science, and religion, but ultimately the execution failed to compel me. I was frequently bored by the many infodumps and flat, dull characters. It also didn't age...
wifilibrarian
wifilibrarian rated it
2.0 Snow crash Neal Stephenson review
A classic of science fiction and cyber punk, this is the first Neal Stepenson I've read. It had some impressively prescient ideas for when it was published in the early 90s, but I'm not sure when this book was mean to be set. Someone reading this in 1995 would have found this even more fantastical t...
Seriously, Read a Book!
Seriously, Read a Book! rated it
4.0 Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson's characters and I seem to share quite a few interests (some of which are, admittedly, not for everybody). Though Snow Crash seems to be Stephenson's most popular book, I wouldn't give it the kind of universal recommendation status merited by the likes of Zodiac. However, I think it ...
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