Snow Crash (SFBC 50th Anniversary Collection)

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Hardcover, 451 pages

English language

Published Aug. 13, 2007 by SFBC.

ISBN:
978-0-7394-8023-6
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OCLC Number:
85896148

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3 stars (2 reviews)

Within the Metaverse, Hiro is offered a datafile named Snow Crash by a man named Raven who hints that it is a form of narcotic. Hiro's friend and fellow hacker Da5id views a bitmap image contained in the file which causes his computer to crash and Da5id to suffer brain damage in the real world.

This is the future we now live where all can be brought to life in the metaverse and now all can be taken away. Follow on an adventure with Hiro and YT as they work with the mob to uncover a plot of biblical proportions.

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reviewed Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

Review of 'Snow Crash' on 'Storygraph'

2 stars

Wrote a whole long review about why I didn't like it, but got bored of my own opinion.

In short:

While clever, the linguistic virus, Sumerian, and religion lessons were long and dull
 Characters unbelievable, and didn't really invest in them.
Sex with a minor scene - didn't want that

Did like:
 the world
the technology
the prologue bit about pizza delivery. Loved that world building, really great opening! Then the main story wrecked it (for me).

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4 stars