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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/830.Snow_Crash?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Snow Crash" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1157396730m/830.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/830.Snow_Crash?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Snow Crash</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/545.Neal_Stephenson">Neal Stephenson</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21874722?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 2 of 5 stars<br/>A few years ago, I read Stephenson's CRYPTONOMICON. I thought it was awesome. This one...not so awesome. It's definitely a cybernovel, which I sort of knew going in, so I had some misgivings. I should have listened to my misgivings this time. While the book starts out relatively interestingly, and there are some intriguing characters (especially the "Mr. Moto"-type character, the Aleut with a score to settle, Raven), the plot devolves into post-modern sci-fi silliness of the highest order. With highspeed skateboarding, virtual reality swordfights, and a futuristic dystopia in which (ho hum) corporations control the world, in the end, SNOW CRASH is just your run-of-the-mill testosterone-driven cyber novel. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/909435?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>