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been reading Snow Crash and i really like it. charmed by the dynamic of Hiro being Theoretically the Coolest Person You’ll Ever Meet (ninja super hacker, caries swords around, roommates with a rock star) and YT being Much Cooler Than Him (15 year old skater girl)
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I first read this book twenty plus years ago, don't remember anything about the plot or characters, but this paragraph always stuck with me:
Mistigram: sometimes you get far enough into your preliminary layout of an #ANSIart adaptation that you realise, gulp, this is going to be more small-scale than I thought, maybe I should cut and run... but Cthulu has a 'sunk cost fallacy' way of seeing it through to the bitter end. Anyway, this is his take on #BruceJensen's iconic cover art to the 1993 paperback edition of #NealStephenson's #cyberpunk novel #SnowCrash, in the background, #TheGrid, in the foreground, the world's tiniest #HiroProtagonist. It was drawn for the new science fiction-themed MIST0526 artpack collection(, though while apparently still in a MIST0426 frame of mind!)
Snow Crash is a trip
I'm nearly done reading Snow Crash and the entire time this guy (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett) has been in my head as Hiro:
Right??
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Been reading snow crash and enjoying it :) here’s some explorations where I try to figure out how to imagine Hiro, the main character. IRL him to the right, metaverse him to the left.
Where's the venn diagram of people who have read Snow Crash and read/watched Scott Pilgrim? Because all I'm saying is...Scott Pilgrim/Hiro Protagonist is a ship that has so much potential.
Snow Crash (1992)
Author: Neal Stephenson
Science Fiction; Cyberpunk; Dystopian
Page Count: 559
How Did I Come Across This Book?:
The Book was gifted to me on my birthday. Never heard of the book or the author before - Went in absolutely blind.
Review:
Man-oh-man, this book was dense and I felt like I was in a college lecture hall for many chapters of this book. Is that bad? Good? I guess it all depends - at points the "lectures" were droll and at other points engaging, riveting. I definitely learned things I never even contemplated.
For the "non-lectured" portions of the book it was high flying action - a punch to the mouth in a good way. The opening of the book when our protagonist is talking about delivering pizzas was a beautifully written masterpiece.
And for my moment of honesty - I didn't even fathom that this book was written in the early 90's - silly me thought this was a modern/recent book ripping on sci-fi and cyberpunk tropes of the past - when actually it was building, expanding, and inventing new tropes of the genre. Even when passages mentioned dates/years/events (WWII, 70s, 80s) I didn't fully gather that the the story/setting was taking place in a dystopian 1990s - whoosh - right over my head. I thought this book was spoofing cyberpunk books of the past - a satire - which kind of made it a fun journey. Neal Stephenson was ahead of the curve blending that "nerd" terminology and comedy (I hope he was aiming for laughs) back in '92.
Looking at the book as whole and at the period that it was written - the style that it was written - this is good piece of work - BUT - I understand this book is not for everyone - there are some slow burns.
Personal Rating: 3/10
Yearly Book Total: 3
Total Page Count: 1,185
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