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Snow Crash (Paperback)

by Neal Stephenson (Author)
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From the opening line of his breakthrough cyberpunk novel Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson plunges the reader into a not-too-distant future. It is a world where the Mafia controls pizza delivery, the United States exists as a patchwork of corporate-franchise city-states, and the Internet--incarnate as the Metaverse--looks something like last year's hype would lead you to believe it should. Enter Hiro Protagonist--hacker, samurai swordsman, and pizza-delivery driver. When his best friend fries his brain on a new designer drug called Snow Crash and his beautiful, brainy ex-girlfriend asks for his help, what's a guy with a name like that to do? He rushes to the rescue. A breakneck-paced 21st-century novel, Snow Crash interweaves everything from Sumerian myth to visions of a postmodern civilization on the brink of collapse. Faster than the speed of television and a whole lot more fun, Snow Crash is the portrayal of a future that is bizarre enough to be plausible. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.


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One of the added pleasures of the success of Stephenson's recent books (Cryptonomicon, etc.) is this better-late-than-never audio version of his third (and arguably best) novel, which continues to be a paperback bestseller. Snow Crash (1992), which helped earn the word "cyberpunk" a place in history, is set in the not-too-distant future where the Mafia controls pizza delivery, the U.S. is a vast, mall-like patchwork of corporate-franchise city-states, and young Hiro Protagonist (yes, that's the hero protagonist's name) uses his computer game wizardry and pizza delivering skills to combat a deadly new designer drug (and computer virus) called Snow Crash. Actor/writer Davis is the ideal choice for bringing Stephenson's crackling, poetic language to life, and the author-approved abridgement sacrifices none of his hilariously skewed, eminently believable vision a stew of concepts from Sumerian myth to Japanese anime of the commercially sponsored fate that sits waiting in a giant shopping mall, coming soon to a neighborhood near you. Based on the Bantam Doubleday Dell paperback.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Something for everyone to love...and to hate..., Mar 10 2006
By Ken Breadner "Pageflipper" (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Snow Crash (Paperback)
By turns frustratingly brilliant and wildly disappointing, this book seems to taunt its readers. It can't make up its mind what it is. The first chapter is possibly the most madcap action scene I've ever read. After that the novel just veers off in all directions at once. The hell of it is, many of these directions are interesting. You just get to wishing Stephenson would spend more time somewhere, anywhere. And then, wonder of wonders, everything gets tied up together in the end.
I'm a small minority on here, it appears: I REALLY liked the historical lectures. They actually made a good deal of sense to me and made me think of the world in a new way.
I'm more than intrigued enough to read some more of this author.
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4.0 out of 5 stars FIrst Stephenson read won't be the last, Sep 30 2009
By J. Tobin Garrett (Vancouver, BC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Snow Crash (Paperback)
This was my first plunge into the world of Stephenson (I have Cryptonomicon sitting ominously on my shelf), and now I know why people make such a big fuss over him. This book is funny, wildly inventive, action-packed, futuristic, dystopian, philsophical, historical, etc... I was totally sucked into the world and loved the descriptions of the franchised universe in which the characters live, consume, and die in. It was interesting even further when the full mystery began to unravel and Stephenson injected the book with mythology and religious history, which was fascinating and unexpected.

I've been told this is a 'cyberpunk' novel, and I can see why, as the name seems to fit the tone of the book. Punk music, skateboarding, violence, and swords all combined with technology, cars, virtual reality, and computer viruses. Makes for quite an interesting mash of topics.

There were a few times when the characters fell flat for me. I didn't really buy into or care about the romance between Hiro and Juanita; it seemed as though it was thrown in there to make the characters more dynamic, the story more involving, but didn't work for me. Stephenson is a great writer and could be so much better if he created characters that were as three dimensional as his worlds.

What really sold me on the novel was Stephenson's narrative voice: it was so casual and conversational that it was difficult to remember that the novel was written in third person at all. The narrator had such a presence in the book, which was really cool. It was kind of like how David Foster Wallace has his own presence in his books as a narrator, just lurking in the background but constantly there, popping in every once in a while with asides and footnoted information.

I look forward to reading more of Neil Stephenson's work. His futuristic writings, but also his historical writing in the Baroque Trilogy.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Most entertaining book I've read in a long time., Jun 30 2004
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This review is from: Snow Crash (Paperback)
First off, I read this book in just over 2 days. I quite honestly couldn't put it down - extremely action packed, better than most movies I've seen lately.

I'd almost say I'd like to see Snow Crash made into a movie, but I don't think anyone could do it justice.

This book has hi-tech gadgets, pizza deliveries, super computers, elaborate and well researched conspiracies, skater-delivery girls, religious commentary, motorcycle sword fights, archeology, fantastic weapons, a few heavy chunks of pure fantasy, machine enhanced gaurd dogs, and much much much more.

Absolutely Enjoyable.

Once you start the first page you'll have trouble putting it down.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Cyber Trash!! Worst book ever!!
This was the most painful book I have ever read! It is so disjointed, the reader has little or no idea what world the characters are in at any given time. Read more
Published on Oct 31 2005 by Paul Guibord

1.0 out of 5 stars Maybe I just don't care much for the cyberpunk genre...
...but this has got to be the most disappointing novel I've ever wasted my time on! Okay, so I listened to the audiobook version while I was driving to and from work, and so I... Read more
Published on Jul 12 2004 by D. Prince

5.0 out of 5 stars Be sure you stop to breathe
Reading this book is like watching an Imax film of Calvin and Hobbes riding their sled. Stephenson manages to combine something old, sonething new, lots of things borrowed, and a... Read more
Published on Jun 26 2004 by J. Levene

4.0 out of 5 stars Why you should read Snow Crash
You should read this novel if you

1. enjoy a dark vision of the future presented as comedy;
2. appreciate masterful word play;
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Published on Jun 18 2004 by C. Myers

4.0 out of 5 stars Highly entertaining and ahead of its time
Readers of this book need to take into account that it was written between '89 and '91, published in '92. Why? Read more
Published on Jun 14 2004 by Dan Donlin

5.0 out of 5 stars Definitely one of the new masters of cyberpunk!
Along with William Gibson, who is sort of the "father" of cyberpunk, and Asimov and Clarke, the "fathers" of science fiction/high-tech, comes Neal Stephenson... Read more
Published on Jun 3 2004 by Lance

2.0 out of 5 stars Not for Everyone
What Neuromancer started, Snow Crash maximizes. If Cyber-Punk is your thing, you'll love this. I didn't. Read more
Published on May 31 2004 by Alec Graham

2.0 out of 5 stars Snow Crash lived up to its title, it Crashed.
I read this book by recommendation of a friend. This most disappointing issue with this novel is its failed potential. The first chapter really took me by surprise. Read more
Published on May 29 2004 by tyler hunter

2.0 out of 5 stars Reminded me of eating at MacDonalds.
A quick, cheap gorging but without much satisfaction.

First for the good points that earned the book its two stars. Read more

Published on May 23 2004 by k_g_b

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing!!!!!!!
Did this book come before or after "The Matrix" I wonder?? It at least deserves to be made into a film as it is one of the best Sci-Fi books i've read! Read more
Published on May 23 2004 by Tom Smith

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