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Title: Is Snow Crash worth reading?
Post by: Kitsunexus on November 19, 2007, 07:09:52 PM
I dunno, I hear like a lot of people practically jerking off to this book, and when I read the details it just seems like a weird mix of Neuromancer, Johnny Mnemonic and that old CD-I game Burncycle. I'm into sci-fi I guess, the only sci-fi books I've read though are 1984 (that was only vaguely sci-fi), Fahrenheit 451, Neuromancer, and stuff of that ilk.

Is it worth it?
Title: Re: Is Snow Crash worth reading?
Post by: schnuth on November 19, 2007, 07:22:43 PM
Snow Crash is one of my favorite books so I'd have to say yes.  Snow Crash is probably the ultimate in nerd/geek/otaku wish fulfillment, hence all the "jerking off" about it.  If you like cyberpunk that doesn't take itself too seriously (just seriously enough) with a dash of pre-Christianity religion mixed in, this book just might be for you!  Besides the main character's name is Hiro Protagonist.  How cool is that?  :)

I'd recommend The Diamond Age as well.  It expands the idea of claves from Snow Crash but still has all the crazy technology.  I find the Victorian era dreadfully boring.  But Stephenson's Neo Victorians kept me quite intrigued.

Aaron

Title: Re: Is Snow Crash worth reading?
Post by: Kitsunexus on November 21, 2007, 06:41:49 AM
Whoah, this got buried! Thanks for the info man, I'll check this book out. ^_^
Title: Re: Is Snow Crash worth reading?
Post by: Turbo D on November 21, 2007, 08:05:09 AM
I don't read much books. I mainly read manga. Would you recommend it to a dude like me?
Title: Re: Is Snow Crash worth reading?
Post by: Kitsunexus on November 21, 2007, 08:30:54 AM
I don't read much books. I mainly read manga. Would you recommend it to a dude like me?

Oh god, a mangaloid.  :roll: Overpriced boring Japanese comic books...
Title: Re: Is Snow Crash worth reading?
Post by: Hobo Xiphas on November 21, 2007, 04:58:56 PM
Keranu linked me to this thread for good reason I guess.  If there was ever a question right up my alley, this is it.

Snow Crash is not not for you if you want serious cyberpunk.  In many ways it is a parody of the genre, and in my opinion, it is the nail in the coffin that killed the genre, showing how retardedly obsolete the genre had become.  It is a great read if you are looking for something funny, and I would recommend it for the first chapter alone.

If you want some more serious Stevenson stuff, try Cryptomicron.  It's good post-cyberpunk fiction involving two guys trying to set up a data haven, searching for Japanese war gold, and World War II cryptbreaking.  I don't think your ADD could take reading the whole book though, it is really long.   Snow Crash really does fit your hyperactive posting style, Kitsune, so try that.  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Is Snow Crash worth reading?
Post by: guyjin on November 21, 2007, 05:55:58 PM
Oh god, a mangaloid.  :roll: Overpriced boring Japanese comic books...

Find a volume of "nausicaa and the valley of the wind". read it. if it does not impress you, no manga ever will.
Title: Re: Is Snow Crash worth reading?
Post by: Hobo Xiphas on November 21, 2007, 06:11:40 PM
The only Japanese comic books apropos to this thread are Ghost in the Shell, the last bastion of classic cyberpunk, and Appleseed.

Take your other weird non-cyberpunk crap to another thread, messers!  Books are better than comics anyways.
Title: Re: Is Snow Crash worth reading?
Post by: Kitsunexus on November 21, 2007, 07:04:16 PM
Oh god, a mangaloid.  :roll: Overpriced boring Japanese comic books...

Find a volume of "nausicaa and the valley of the wind". read it. if it does not impress you, no manga ever will.

Actually I have read it, and it's actually OK. Not $14.95 per issue good, but it's OK.