Monday, May 23, 2005
Snow Crash
Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world…
Snow Crash is the book that put Neal Stephenson on the map. It is a typical Stephenson novel in that it manages to blend Sumerian mythology, linguistics, hacking, skateboarding, pirates, samurai sword fighting, harpoons, and the mafia.
It is not my favorite NS book (that would be a tie between the Baroque Cycle novels and The Diamond Age) and it tended to get a bit overly involved in ancient religious discorses, but when this book was hot it was scalding. The kind of book you fly unconsciously through, an action novel of substance. You just might actually learn something. And as always the badass quotient is high.
Snow Crash is the book that put Neal Stephenson on the map. It is a typical Stephenson novel in that it manages to blend Sumerian mythology, linguistics, hacking, skateboarding, pirates, samurai sword fighting, harpoons, and the mafia.
It is not my favorite NS book (that would be a tie between the Baroque Cycle novels and The Diamond Age) and it tended to get a bit overly involved in ancient religious discorses, but when this book was hot it was scalding. The kind of book you fly unconsciously through, an action novel of substance. You just might actually learn something. And as always the badass quotient is high.
# posted by Tom Smith @ 12:43 PM 
