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Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson

Start date: August 1, 2019

Finish date: August 31, 2019

Discussion: Group Reads

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Sep 11, 2019 Matthew rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: completist-book-club, sci-fi, 2019

I expected this to be bizarre. I was not disappointed!

In the past I have not had much luck with Cyberpunk. While I did enjoy this one more than my previous experiences, I still don’t think it will be a genre that I will generally go out of my way to read. It is just a little but too out there, to the point of being a chore to push through, from time to time.

This book goes from cinematic action to humor to religious philosophy to computer hacking to mafia violence with great abandon. In discussin ...more

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Apr 23, 2022 Michael Finocchiaro rated it really liked it

Shelves: sci-fi, fiction, american-21st-c, dystopian, novels

This book created the term metaverse and for that, it deserves lots of credit. As for the writing, sort of Hunter S Thompson on speed, I'd say. Its character development is thin, but the dim picture of this particular mafioso dystopia was relatively unique (think of Biff's paradise in 2015 in Back to the Future) and frankly pretty fun to read. There is some humor here, but the most enjoyment is just some of the ideas around virtual reality and then reflecting on how he sort of nailed it from a t ...more

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Nov 12, 2019 Lillie Robinson rated it it was ok

So I liked this but I also didn't? The sheer craziness of the book was great but I found it hard to keep track of what was going on. That might be due to me taking at least 4 breaks from the book to finish another book that was on a dire hold from Overdrive. Anyways, the detail was amazing, if not confusing as all get out. Further, I like how religion and technology come together in this one. I don't think I will ever see anything like this again.

Winner of best first chapter in my opinion! ...more

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