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Snow Crash
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one extra star for being incredibly ahead of its time.
one extra star for being incredibly ahead of its time.
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Wrong are you though even, clever very.
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¡Crash Snow like just hip, writing-backwards my with hip so am i
But Yoda, how could you? Have you ever come across a better pizza delivery service in your life?
5 stars for the pizza delivery service!
Pig-Yoda speak I not, pig-Sumerian rewrite in should, kudos anyway!
Aw shoot, Mark. I've heard so much good about this book.
manny - ellway ankthay ouyay!mace - you should probably give it a shot anyway. i am really a minority opinion on this. lots of folks i respect love it.
I probably will but now I'm not as excited. Boo hoo!
stroke a me gave almost review this reading
want to experience another almost-stroke, Bill? open up the youtube videos above. americana at its most sinister!
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Hmm, starting after Anathem I, perhaps know I what are saying here you.Damn, bought already the book, I!
forward looking your review i am yes no yes no okay why not we'll see! Anathem good i thought but now oh okay.
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Is this so ahead of its time? I don't know. I thought it was riding the William Gibson wave, myself, but honestly I think I just don't know enough about so-called cyberpunk.I did think this one started off with a sort of breathless brilliance. But the ending was really poor; if you'd made it all the way to the finish you would probably have made a big raspberry noise and chucked the book across the room.
Jean-marcel wrote: "Is this so ahead of its time? I don't know.s..."actually, i don't really know either. but that's what i've read, many times over.
Few things age more quickly than those that were originally meant to be futuristic.
Simon wrote: "Few things age more quickly than those that were originally meant to be futuristic."Maybe, but I don't really think this was the problem with Snow Crash.
It's still an ok book for me, but the disconnect between the hilarious and awesome beginning and the floppy deflation of the ending is huge.
Most reviews I've read of "Snow Crash" back you up on that. I'm still planning to read it, since Stephenson's sources of inspiration are basically a laundry list of my favourite American authors of the late 20th century.
Fuck me, it took me five reads to figure out this was written backwards. LMFAO
Re-reading this I find that I haven't observed that I also thought Against A Dark Background was fairly naff: Banks can never disguise his mystery bad-guys and this one was obvious on first appearance, the protagonist is a clone of Diziet Sma from Use of Weapons and it's a chase movie that's as taut as a squid tentacle. It does have Lazy Guns and that joke about how to spell onomatopoeia, though.
"taut as a squid tentacle"! LIKEyep, there is the Lazy Gun... my favorite thing about that novel.
mark wrote: ""taut as a squid tentacle"! LIKEyep, there is the Lazy Gun... my favorite thing about that novel."
It was going to be "taut as boiled spaghetti." Which do you prefer?
squid tentacle, squid tentacle!
what about spaghetti with squid? I've had that a couple of times, was pretty good
me too, and yes delicious. there's a great japanese restaurant here in sf called On the Bridge (i think) that serves it and other sorts of japanese fusion delights. yum!
Weirdly, I don't like spaghetti or squid. I guess I chose the popular image - glad I changed from pasta to seafood.
Uh, yeah, what that guy said.
Thank you for the review!It was on my list to read; no longer.
it was just too much.
u made my brain hurt
mission accomplished!
The sage Vernon Reid, guitarist for Living Colour, was talking about must read SciFi on Twitter, and several people mentioned this book, so I ran here thinking I had stumbled upon something marvelous, and then I see your review. 😂
try it, you may like it! mine is a minority opinion.
The Sumerian info dump has ruined this one for me. It messes with the structure of [any] novel. Extensive info dumps, IMHO, are a sure sign of lazy writing. I was actually somewhat enjoying it up to that point. (I liked the hybrid dog. He was pretty cool.)
I remember very little of this novel but I actually do remember being annoyed by Sumerian infodumps! I guess some dumps are so painful they become memorable.
Steve wrote: "The Sumerian info dump has ruined this one for me. It messes with the structure of [any] novel. Extensive info dumps, IMHO, are a sure sign of lazy writing. I was actually somewhat enjoying it up t..."If you liked the hybrid dog, you should definitely give We3 by Grant Morrison a read!
