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| Original Title: | Snow Crash ASIN B000FBJCJE |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Hiro Protagonist, Y.T., Da5id Meier, Juanita Marquez, Dr. Emanuel Lagos, Uncle Enzo, L. Bob Rife, Dmitri "Raven" Ravinoff |
| Setting: | United States of America |
| Literary Awards: | Arthur C. Clarke Award Nominee (1994), British Science Fiction Association Award Nominee (1993), Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Roman étranger (1997), Prometheus Award Nominee for Best Novel (1993), Washington State Book Award (1993) Seiun Award 星雲賞 Nominee for Best Foreign Novel (1999) |
Neal Stephenson
Kindle Edition | Pages: 559 pages Rating: 4.03 | 224660 Users | 8762 Reviews
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| Title | : | Snow Crash |
| Author | : | Neal Stephenson |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 559 pages |
| Published | : | August 26th 2003 by Spectra (first published June 1992) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Animals. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Classics |
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In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo's CosoNostra 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.Rating Epithetical Books Snow Crash
Ratings: 4.03 From 224660 Users | 8762 ReviewsArticle Epithetical Books Snow Crash
Here's what I think: This is not just a book about computers, although the shiny veneer of the Metaverse, and computer avatars, and Hiro Protagonist's (yes, thats the name of the protagonist in the story) career as a hacker might make you think it is. But theres a lot more going on here, beneath that flashy action-adventure SF stuff. This is a complicated, messy book, and not that easy to follow. But, it's fascinating and I WANTED to understand everything, so as soon as I got to the last page, INeal Stephenson's characters and I seem 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 would appeal to a broader audience than say, Cryptonomicon , or Reamde (only in part due to the fact that those two each clock in at over 1,000 pages). So, let's get that snow crashing!
Crazy, strange, exciting, visionary, action-packed, sexy. Reading this book is like watching the Matrix for the first time. Though it may lack pretense of more complex literature, it asks vague and interesting enough questions to match The Bard's sophistry. Beyond that it is just a great read. It shows a vision of the future that seems eminently likely, but unlike 1984 or Brave New World, has not started to feel stilted. It also lack the long-winded philosophical diatribes and allegories that
I have a little SAT analogy to help you understand how awesome this book is: Snow Crash is to Books as The Matrix is to movies (with only the absolute BEST parts of Tron and Da Vinci Code thrown in). I'm not talking about all the commercialized Matrix-saga and the weird hype... I'm talking about the first time you sat in the movie theater and saw that chick in the Matrix spin around in suspended animation and kick the crap out of a bunch of cops and thought, "What the #@*%??? COOL!" That's
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Written in the present tense, which is awkward and unengaging, brimfuls of technological deus ex machina remove all tension from an already slow plot-line. The characters are interesting, hence the two stars, but even they felt lacking and emotionally disengaged from their own story, which had the futile makings of something original.The ending is atrocious, preceded by wastelands of chapter-length explanation, and a fairy-tale misinterpretation of Neurolinguistics that seems to have been
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