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One of the premiere cyberpunk novels, it embodies everything that's best about the genre.
I generally have very little tolerance for the hackneyed "stop the evil drug pushers" type of plotline, but Stephenson manages to do it with a degree of originality - not to mention wit and verve - that overcomes any possible objections I might have had. The mix of near-future 'underground' high-tech and ancient Sumerian mythology is also an aesthetic combination that really appeals to me.
Of course, the basi ...more
I generally have very little tolerance for the hackneyed "stop the evil drug pushers" type of plotline, but Stephenson manages to do it with a degree of originality - not to mention wit and verve - that overcomes any possible objections I might have had. The mix of near-future 'underground' high-tech and ancient Sumerian mythology is also an aesthetic combination that really appeals to me.
Of course, the basi ...more
Great read, and yet unfortunately not my kind of novel. I guess cyberpunk just isn't my thing, but hey, I had to give it a try to find out, right?
And ultimately, I'm glad I did. After finishing Snow Crash, I totally understand why this book is considered Stephenson's greatest classic. Awesome characters, awesome world, and especially awesome concepts/philosophies. I just wish I had a little more interest in some of the latter, but I could still grasp and recognize their merits and appreciate th ...more
And ultimately, I'm glad I did. After finishing Snow Crash, I totally understand why this book is considered Stephenson's greatest classic. Awesome characters, awesome world, and especially awesome concepts/philosophies. I just wish I had a little more interest in some of the latter, but I could still grasp and recognize their merits and appreciate th ...more
This one of the best book I have ever read. This is how Gibson should have wrote Neuromancer. The book grabbed me from the start, until almost at the ending, which I think is a little weak.
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I'm a bit conflicted about this book. The setting is unique. The characters are interesting. The ideas behind it are fascinating. The negatives would be that it drags at times, mostly by trying to delve into too much "setting" early on and that the ending was so jarringly abrupt that it annoyed me. Still, this book does many things quite well, so I can forgive some of the sting of the ending.
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This is considered a sci-fi required read, I think because as it was written in the early 90s, it had remarkable prescience for the coming age of online world interactions. But beyond that, it's really not a very entertaining story.
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Started off promising but I just got bogged down. Might give it another go later.
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