On 2010-03-04 Steven, Colorado, USA wrote: Snow Crash was my first cyberpunk read and probably will not be my last - it certainly won´t be my last Neal Stephenson book!
The main character in Snow Crash, Hiro Protagonist, is an ex-pizza delivery driver for the mafia. He collects information, uploads it and makes money off of it if customers find the information he uploads useful. While Hiro is in the metaverse, a virtual reality ´Second Life´ of sorts, he discovers a virus called Snow Crash. Snow Crash is no ordinary virus however; it affects people in real life - outside of the metaverse. It´s Hiros mission to figure out more about the virus.
Snow Crash moves at a break-neck pace. Stephenson has a very creative prose which makes this book almost impossible to put down at times. I found myself late to work more than once because I would attempt to read just a few passages before rolling out of bed only to find that I just couldn´t peel myself away! This is one of those books that will put you in a time machine - you think you´ve only been reading for 20 minutes when in fact it has been an hour!
One of the more common complaints I see in other reviews is how he tends to digress, especially when he talks about topics like ancient Sumerian culture. I didn´t find this annoying at all, I actually found it really interesting how he tied everything together.
This is an addicting read that I highly recommend! I can´t wait to read more of Stephenson´s work!. And summed up by saying A great read that is never boring.. Currently Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book) has an overall rating of 8 over 10.
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Spectra claimed Only once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparison--a writer so original he redefines the way we look at the world. Neal Stephenson is such a writer and Snow Crash is such a novel, weaving virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and just about everything in between with a cool, hip cybersensibility to bring us the gigathriller of the information age.In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo´s CosaNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he´s a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that´s striking down hackers everywhere, he races along the neon-lit streets on a search-and-destroy mission for the shadowy virtual villain threatening to bring about Infocalypse. Snow Crash is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous...you´ll recognize it immediately.
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