Snow Crash in Overdue Podcast

Aug 02, 2014 Megan rated it did not like it

Shelves: sci-fi, bookclub, alternate-universe

To paraphrase Glen Wheldon of PCHH, this is science boring, not science fiction. I enjoyed the myth stuff, but this book is mostly people standing around and monologuing about how computers and the internet work, on top of some more nonsense about brains being computers. Brains are flexible, computers are not. Pretty important difference there. You'd think "religion is a literal virus" would be right up my alley, but it didn't work for me.

The name "Hiro Protagonist" is not clever, and I have sin ...more

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May 14, 2012 Christine Gibb rated it it was ok

This book started with an interesting idea. You have your hero protagonist (lazily named Hiro Protagonist, just in case you forget who to root for) who tries to get to the bottom of a mystery involving a virus that infects both computers and people themselves, named Snow Crash.

If you want to know what the book is about, read the description or the many other reviews that rehash the plot. I'm not going to do it here.

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Jul 03, 2018 Nate Morse rated it liked it

Shelves: sci-fi

This was a strange book. It seemed like a weird research project about how knowledge is a virus that is spread by religion and a story was tacked on about the future/past collapse of the United States into racist city-states and the people who live in it. However, if the start about super high tech, competitive mafia pizza delivery jobs doesn't turn you off, you might like this book.

The world building is great, the characters are ok, the story is weird. ...more

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