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    <![CDATA[Snow Crash]]>
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    <![CDATA[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 <strong>Snow Crash</strong> 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.<br/><br/>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. <strong>Snow Crash</strong> is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous...you'll recognize it immediately.<br/>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Neal Stephenson paints such a vivid and unique world with such memorable characters.  An entertaining read that I'm sure I'll pick up again.]]></body>
    
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