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Snow Crash

By: Neal Stephenson
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
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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. Adventure Fantasy Hard Science Fiction Science Fiction Fiction Dystopian Cyberpunk Linguistics Computer Science Espionage Technology Imperial Japan
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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)
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I am assuming it is a satire on the logical extension of a Reagan/Thatcher world. Everything is run by caricature corporations. I found some of the ideas comical such as the former USA being broken io into autonomous franchises run from 3 ring binders. The idea of the Mafia looking like a safe harbour amongst the competing insanity of the world. But I was detached and unmoved. A bit too much description for my taste. I may have enjoyed it if I were 20. So maybe reading it 30 years too late.

Good Narration . A satire on the Free Market?

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This is one of my all time favourite books and listening to it read out loud was no disappointment.



The depth and tone of Jonothan Davis' voice perfectly matches the tone of the book. It is now imprinted in my memory with his voice. Excellent!

Great book and great narrator

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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!

Enjoyable but outdated

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Still fresh.
Still riveting.
Still thrilling.
Still revolutionary.
Still oh so wow.

One might say that I was delighted.

As enjoyable as reading it all those moons ago.

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Listened to this after seeing it on a list of books to read having never heard of Stephenson. Absolutely loved it, set in a dystopian future which brilliantly predicts the web it mercilessly lampoons the franchising of the modern world. A fast moving plot with larger than life characters combine with whimsical discussions on religion and the nature of language.
I was sad when it ended.

Heir to Gibson

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