Snow Crash
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Pros
- Neil Stephenson, Snow Crash. Great world building, but you better like nerdy deep dive.
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson is the book that Ready Player One wanted to be
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.
- Snow Crash
- Prior to this I have read Snow Crash and Seveneves by the author, I loved both of them
Cons
- Snow Crash doesn't do the anti-establishment much, though that's deliberate, it being a parody.
- Snow Crash is a bit of a comedy/horror/cyberpunk hybrid. Some really great stuff, but also some very cringey 'this shows its age' type writing (especially with how the teenage girl is sexualized by a ton of characters, and has the only e...
- Have always had a love / hate relationship with the name Hiro Protagonist from Snow Crash.
- Snow Crash. It's a cyberpunk parody, but for some reason has a bunch of nonsense conspiracy Sumerian history thrown in. Like a really excessive amount. And also a sex scene I could have done without. It's "good", except for when it isn't...
- It is a foundational novel of the cyberpunk genre and it might be worth finishing from that perspective alone, if that interests you, but life is short. You're not feeling it, move on.
Sentiment
25 positive (68%) · 7 mixed (19%) · 5 negative (14%)
Trust + time weighted score: +57% · raw score 54%
What redditors said (10 of 37)
Neil Stephenson, Snow Crash. Great world building, but you better like nerdy deep dive.
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson is the book that Ready Player One wanted to be
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.
Snow Crash
Prior to this I have read Snow Crash and Seveneves by the author, I loved both of them
I really like Neal Stephenson’s books (Anathem mainly but also Snow Crash, Seveneves).
Snow Crash doesn't do the anti-establishment much, though that's deliberate, it being a parody.
SNOW CRASH, for example, nails the tone quite well - the book is not a comedy totem and contains quite serious themes, yet the writing is just biting and full of zingers.
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson got me into reading more sci-fi. It's not too heavy of a science fiction and hits all the good cyber punk type beats.
Not necessarily horror, but Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson might be up your alley. It's a bit on the nose at times, but a great sci-fi dystopia story
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