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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 cybersensibility to bring us the gigathriller of the information age.

In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo's CosaNostra 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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