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Snow Crash
by Neal Stephenson
by Neal Stephenson
Rob's review
bookshelves: all-time-favorites, science-fiction, own, 2009, time-all-time-100, 100-paperbacks
Oct 03, 09
bookshelves: all-time-favorites, science-fiction, own, 2009, time-all-time-100, 100-paperbacks
Recommended for:
anyone
Read in January, 2009, read count: 8
When I first read Snow Crash, I thought to myself: "This thing is paced like a comic." Funny then to later discover that the novel was written after a comic book attempt at the same story fell apart.
Snow Crash is the paradigmatic Stephenson novel. Grabs you quickly, thrusts you head long into world that's so preposterous that he can't possibly be making it up, and the drags you along kicking and screaming until you're left startled and somewhat confused at a precipitous ending.
But don't let that fool you. This is probably Stephenson's best, most memorable work. It's certainly my favorite and it's certainly the one that's the most fun. (Which is probably why I've read it ten times.)
UPDATE: Yep. Still one of my all-time-favorites.
UPDATE: See also: Filet of Meta-Conflict.
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SEE ALSO
• "10 Science Fiction Books That I Love (and you will at least like a lot)" at litreactor
Snow Crash is the paradigmatic Stephenson novel. Grabs you quickly, thrusts you head long into world that's so preposterous that he can't possibly be making it up, and the drags you along kicking and screaming until you're left startled and somewhat confused at a precipitous ending.
But don't let that fool you. This is probably Stephenson's best, most memorable work. It's certainly my favorite and it's certainly the one that's the most fun. (Which is probably why I've read it ten times.)
UPDATE: Yep. Still one of my all-time-favorites.
UPDATE: See also: Filet of Meta-Conflict.
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SEE ALSO
• "10 Science Fiction Books That I Love (and you will at least like a lot)" at litreactor
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Quotes Rob Liked
“Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
Reading Progress
| 12/25/2008 | page 35 |
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7.95% | "got a new copy (new cover!) for Xmas; just as good as I remember it" |
| 12/26/2008 | page 54 |
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12.27% | "I always kind of imagined that the MetaCops that arrest YT were Eddie & Lou (from The Simpsons)" |
| 01/01/2009 | page 183 |
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41.59% | "that wacky, lovable Y.T.!" |
| 01/06/2009 | page 279 |
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63.41% | ""...then the guy with the swords goes nuts in the gear shop."" |
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I just finished this two or three days ago. And I cannot believe that it is over. I'm told that the Diamond Age also features Y.T. but like 60 years later or something. I think this one will get a re-read before the year is over.
selena wrote: "I just finished this two or three days ago. And I cannot believe that it is over. I'm told that the Diamond Age also features Y.T. but like 60 years later or something. I think this one will get a ..."It's worth a re-read. I think I've read it 7 or 8 times over the tears. And yes, there is an oblique appearance by YT in The Diamond Age.
