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  • The first time I ever read this book, I borrowed it from my high school Latin teacher. I was blown away by the accuracy of his statement that I would love it, and even more so by the book itself. Stephenson writes brilliantly and intelligently and appeals to the reader's sense of humor, wonder, and ... Continue

    The first time I ever read this book, I borrowed it from my high school Latin teacher. I was blown away by the accuracy of his statement that I would love it, and even more so by the book itself. Stephenson writes brilliantly and intelligently and appeals to the reader's sense of humor, wonder, and curiosity while captivating him with a suspenseful and smartly historical and technological plot. Techie sci-fi geeks, brutal cyberpunk fantasizers and casual reading audiences alike and and will be riveted by this book.

    What amazes me personally about it is Stephenson's ability to constantly maintain his present-tense narrative. I think so one-dimensionally about the present tense, and was quite impressed by his power to both maintain it without struggle and use it to his advantage in keeping the storyline moving rapidly and continuously. This book from the beginning took a place as one of my absolute favorites, and its author as well.

    

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  • Okay, is it just me, or did anyone else find the letter about the toilet paper pools highly entertaining? I love this whole book but when I reread it I was just itching to get to that chapter. I read that letter over and over. It is absolutely amazing.

    

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  • In danger of being read too many times.

    

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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  cyber-sensibility to bring us the gigantic thriller of the  information age. In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers  pizza for Uncle Enzo's Cosa Nostra Inc., but it  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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