I just picked up this book and started reading it(so I am not sure if it is a masterpiece or not, yet). This is a remarkable book. Check out the
WIKI article.
From terms like 'avatar' (used by many online) and the 'Earth' program in Snow Crash which is basically the same thing as google earth and other
similar programs. When I started reading it it seemed like it was new, but I found that it was published in 1992!
So far, it is really good. I hope it stays that way, and I hope others will pick it up as well.
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Heh, I have a book called 'Cryptonomicon' by the same author, but I haven't read it yet. When I bought it, I didn't look too closely, and thought
it was by Neil Gaiman, whose American Gods I liked. It looks like an interesting book, but I have a lot of unread books kicking around.
How would you compare Snow Crash to William Gibson's cyberpunk, if you are familiar with his work? (Assuming you are, since he's a key figure in
that genre) I've read almost all of Gibson's books, so if you tell me that Snow Crash is of similar quality, I'll be sure to put it on my list.
(And bump up Cryptonomicon on the to-do reading list!)
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Excellent read, Snowcrash. I enjoyed it the first time, and even moreso the second and third times.
Would make an excellent graphic novel or animation.
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Would make an excellent graphic novel or animation.
They had a film lined up but it was scrapped. I think that was because the most cyberpunk movies tend to suck, or be compared to the matrix, one or
the other.
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That's painful to know.
Still, great book. I understand there's an audio-book out there as well somewhere, which should be a nice distraction.
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Here is a very notable quote. I removed the swearing. For context it is the F word, twice.
Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest mother(REMOVED) in the world.
If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore
myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my
life to being bad.
Hiro used to feel this way, too, but then he ran into Raven. In a way, this was liberating. He no longer has to worry about being the baddest
mother(REMOVED) in the world. The position is taken.
in CHAPTER 36 ("Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson) The parenthetic citation is for the mods.... just in case
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I loved Snow Crash. I still think that Hiro Protagonist is one of the better (and funnier) names ever bestowed upon a main character. For the
person who bought Cryptonomicon -- it's a good book. You should definitely read it. But heed this warning: the first 50 or so pages are very
difficult to wade through if you aren't into math.
/tn.
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