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I wish I'd read this book when I was in my teens or, even better, in my early 20s while at Uni and starting to study English. The amount of theoretical postulating that goes into the explanation for the Snow Crash drug/virus works would have blown my mind back then. Now, while I respect the amount of work Stephenson has put in to ground his narrative in myth and logic, and enjoyed some of his conspiracy-tinged ideas, their presence as chunks of exposition really bogs down the middle of what is o
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The premise was so interesting, but this book was not for me. The characters were so flat. It seems that was intentional - the protagonist's name was literally Hiro Protagonist, so of course he's just a stand-in character. Regardless, it didn't work for me. This book was a slog to get through.
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Lots of interesting ideas in this book but the plot jumps all over the place and requires the narrator to explain explicitly what's happened. Felt more like an action movie than anything else at times (in a bad way)
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