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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. The detail is amazing. Took a long time to read because of it, but it's very impressive. Fantastic all around. (  ) jeffhandley | Oct 7, 2009 |  Fun book. Takes place in a future where everything is privatized. The U.S. government has become all but marginalized. In place are huge franchised real estate developments and other businesses (including the Mafia). The CIA and Library of Congress are privatized to become an EBay of information. People live dual lives in reality and in a virtual reality. (  ) sggottlieb | Oct 4, 2009 | Essential Neal Stephenson. This book was a roller coaster of futuristic vision from chapter 1. Stephenson's wit and imagination are absolutely fascinating. Just the beginning, where Hero Protagonist is a Pizza Delivery boy for the Mafia, was enough to peak my interest of Stephenson's imaginative future. Anyone who is a serious science fiction fan should read this book - definitely in my top 10, perhaps my top 5. ( ) rclose | Sep 3, 2009 | Pre09: Gibson may have started it, but this defined Cyberpunk. I love the 'It's never too late to be a badass' line. Characters: They are all memorable. Even the dog was amazing. Plot: Convoluted, but well rolled. Style: Classic cyberpunk. A little dated in parts, but the characters pull it over the top. ( ) Isamoor | Aug 26, 2009 | Snow Crash is in some ways pure cyberpunk. It suffers in 2009 a little from being 15 years old. However, there are lots of reasons to read the book still. There's a very central idea of memes, genes and the ability to programme humans. There is a lot about the metaverse, much of which is "right" if you look at things like Second Life, although some of which is wrong and interestingly so. And although the structure of the USA hasn't changed like this, not in the slightest, it's still a fascinating look at a horribly plausible future culture. ( ) lewispike | Aug 13, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0553562614, Paperback)From the opening line of his breakthrough cyberpunk novel Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson plunges the reader into a not-too-distant future. It is a world where the Mafia controls pizza delivery, the United States exists as a patchwork of corporate-franchise city-states, and the Internet--incarnate as the Metaverse--looks something like last year's hype would lead you to believe it should. Enter Hiro Protagonist--hacker, samurai swordsman, and pizza-delivery driver. When his best friend fries his brain on a new designer drug called Snow Crash and his beautiful, brainy ex-girlfriend asks for his help, what's a guy with a name like that to do? He rushes to the rescue. A breakneck-paced 21st-century novel, Snow Crash interweaves everything from Sumerian myth to visions of a postmodern civilization on the brink of collapse. Faster than the speed of television and a whole lot more fun, Snow Crash is the portrayal of a future that is bizarre enough to be plausible.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:08 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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