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Tarfumes.com - Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book)
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Manufacturer: Spectra
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780553380958
ISBN: 0553380958
Label: Spectra
Manufacturer: Spectra
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: 2000-05-02
Publisher: Spectra
Release Date: 2000-05-02
Studio: Spectra
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Editorial Reviews:
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One of Time magazine's 100 all-time best English-language novels.
Only once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparison—a writer so original he redefines the way we look at the world. Neal Stephenson is such a writer and Snow Crash is such a novel, weaving virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and just about everything in between with a cool, hip cybersensibility to bring us the gigathriller of the information age.
In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo’s CosoNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he’s a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that’s striking down hackers everywhere, he races along the neon-lit streets on a search-and-destroy mission for the shadowy virtual villain threatening to bring about infocalypse. Snow Crash is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous…you’ll recognize it immediately.
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Summary: The book itself has become a reference, you might as well read it
Comment: I can easily agree with the many reviewers here, "excellent ideas," "brilliant opening," "later parts overblown," etc., but really it's almost irrelevant now. The book has sprinted past reasonable criticism and become a standard that other books are measured against. This is cyberpunk to many readers. In the same way that calling Tolkien "boring in places" is meaningless now, so too is calling Stephenson's characters "one dimensional parodies."
If you haven't read Snow Crash yet, go grab a copy and follow it up with the source material in The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Folks on the train will be much impressed with you.
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Summary: Awesome Cyberpunk
Comment: I've read this book at least a dozen times. Quick whit, parallel storylines. It reads like a movie, or a graphic novel (as it was originally intended)
If you're into SciFi with a cyber twist, this is a must read
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Summary: Sci-Fi for Anyone
Comment: This is the only science fiction novel that I'd recommend to anyone. It stands on its creativity, literacy, and wicked humor. It's complex, engaging, and just plain cool. Perhaps it's not high art, but it's certainly highly entertaining.
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Summary: Inconsistent and ultimately disappointing
Comment: Snow Crash is a modestly-compelling novel with elements of mystery, action, and historical fiction. The characters are well developed; I had no trouble placing Hiro as a multi-cultured and skilled hacker lost in mediocrity and Y.T. as just a stupid, annoying [expletive deleted]. The details into Sumerian myth and the Tower of Babel were well thought out, and while the connection with the technologically advanced Snow Crash metavirus may seem ostensibly tenuous, the author's slow-paced narrative between Hiro and the computerised Librarian is interesting enough.
Unfortunately, the novel suffers from a Hollywood-esque violent action ending that ruins the story.
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Summary: Another donation to the library
Comment: Way too overwritten, with Melville style tangents into things about which nobody cares. Cyberpunk gone bad.
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