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Snow Crash | [Neal Stephenson]
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  • LENGTH
    17 hrs and 8 mins
  • AUDIBLE RELEASE DATE
    30/07/2001
  • PUBLISHER
    Audible Frontiers
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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.

©1992 Neal Stephenson; (P)2001 Audible, Inc.

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What the Critics Say

Brilliantly realized...Stephenson turns out to be an engaging guide to an onrushing tomorrow. (The New York Times Book Review)
"Fast-forward free-style mall mythology for the 21st century." (William Gibson)

Customer Reviews

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  • 4 of 4 people found this review helpful
    "A Manga mini-whirlwind"
    By John (Liverpool, United Kingdom) Jan 19, 2010
    No plot spoilers here. My book club recently agreed this as a 7.5/10. As an audiobook it's well read, and, when I bought it, extremely good value. The storyline has minor flaws and the characterisation is argueably two-dimensional..but the author does an excellent job of telling an entertaining yarn with thoughtful and witty situations and asides in an overall entertaining package. This would obviously make a great Manga comic, and that is, I'm told, exactly what the author intended. In that sense the lack of depth of characterisation is understandable....in cartoon form this would be easier to allow the reader to infer. You get a lot for your money here...with some of the details and asides that flesh out this concievable (slightly sardonic) dystopia being enough to constitute a novella on their own. In the end, it doesn't necessarily deliver more than it promises, but it certainly doesn't deliver less.
  • 1 of 1 people found this review helpful
    "Vivid pictures"
    By Robbie (southamptonUnited Kingdom) Oct 26, 2008
    I enjoyed listening to snowcrash its` pace variation fitted in well with my other activities. The two 'universes' worked well although I became confused with the different city-states in the real one (but my american geography never was that good!) As usual with this narrator the pictures are so vivid it beats HD TV.
  • 0 of 0 people found this review helpful
    "Snow Crash"
    By William (Falkirk, United Kingdom) Aug 1, 2011
    Excellent book years since I read my hard copy, what foresight he had as a few situations have come to pass, for me he is the Grandfather of Cyberpunk I can't recommend this book highly enough, and the narrator is one of the best I have heard, a real pleasure to listen to.
  • 0 of 0 people found this review helpful
    "Impossible to listen to"
    By Caroline (Quimper, France) May 16, 2011
    I am perfectly computer literate, I even like virtual reality and parallel world games, but this, this is way beyond the pale, way too weird and difficult to follow. No thanks.
  • 0 of 0 people found this review helpful
    "'s no crash, it's great ..."
    By Chris (Whitstable, United Kingdom) Apr 7, 2011
    An inventive future of a fragmented USA, franchiced services and ministates in which the computer world (metaverse) is as real as the 'real' one. It grabs attention once you get into the cyberpunk setting and doesn't let go. The two main characters are sympathetic though character development is not really the aim. The action is a bit hot at times and the Sumerian linguistic stuff which is central to the plot might need some replaying!. This I found a most enjoyable listen and the narrator was perfect for the action
  • 1 of 1 people found this review helpful
    "Great book but not ideal audio material"
    By Tom (West Wickham, United Kingdom) Dec 28, 2010
    Neal Stephenson is a superbly imaginative writer, he shows this to great effect in 'Snow Crash'. The detail and invention of his 'Snow Crash' world is truly mind boggling.

    Although I enjoyed the book, and the narration is superb, I think I would have preferred to read this on the page, as it were; although the narrative and plot hurtle along in good style, the characters are somewhat cartoon-like and two dimensional, serving largely as vehicles to carry the story, and this means that the fantasy backdrop has to carry the listener's interest for much of the 17 hours of the book - that's a long time.

    One other point to note: you really need to have some knowledge and/or interest in computers and virtual reality to follow the plot.

    Overall four stars, but my recommendation would be to read the book rather than listen to it.

  • 1 of 1 people found this review helpful
    "A Perfect Blend"
    By R (Brighton, United Kingdom) Sep 23, 2010
    One of the difficulties with audiobooks, in particular with books that you've previously read, is finding a narrator who sounds right.

    Snowcrash has been one of my favourite books for years and I was delighted to find that Jonathon Davis 'gets it'. The pacing of the story, the emphasis of the words and the voicing of the characters is pretty much spot on for me, so this audiobook gets five stars with no quibbles!
  • 0 of 0 people found this review helpful
    "Excellent reading"
    By Ralph (HullUnited Kingdom) Feb 9, 2010
    A really good reading, with good voicings for the characters, I nonetheless felt that the story ended a little abruptly, and whilst there were certain set pieces that stood out, other sections of the book seemed a little disjointed, with characters appearing in consecutive sections with little indication of how they arrived there.

  • 1 of 2 people found this review helpful
    "Enjoyable but outdated"
    By Mark (BANCHORY, United Kingdom) Jul 1, 2007
    I am glad I listened to Diamond Age first, which was excellent and a relatively recent book. Snow Crash is an enjoyable listen and has minimal and mild profanity. The vivid pictures developed by this wild imagination are thoroughly enjoyable, but this type of near future book dates so much 10 years after writing, which dropped my score form a 4 to a 3. Please put some of his more recent books on Audible!
  • 0 of 15 people found this review helpful
    "Be warned"
    By Glenn (Eastleigh, Hants, United Kingdom) Jun 6, 2007
    If you are like me then the five or so 'F' words in the first few minutes will stop you enjoying what may well otherwise be an excellent listen.

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