Snow Crash
Posted: September 30, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Neal Stephenson, Neuromancer, Snow Crash, William Gibson 1 Comment »
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This had some amazing ideas about language that tied into ancient history (Sumerians!), most of which were presented in the middle third of the book. Unfortunately, it didn’t really add up to much in the end. The whole story resolved in a fairly standard action-oriented way, unlike William Gibson’s Neuromancer, to which Snow Crash is often compared.
Reading some of the literary analysis of the book was almost better than the book itself. There is a lot of discussion in how the book portrays us “hard-wired”, basically unaware computers waiting to be tapped into, as opposed to individuals who are defined by constantly changing environment and with trajectories of our own. And I agree that the book kinda just ended eventually, no riposte.