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Review - Snow Crash
Mar. 15th, 2010 09:40 pmSnow Crash (Neal Stephenson)
For something written in 1992, this book has proved prophetic in some ways, which was interesting reading it from here in 2010. It reminds me of something Cory Doctorow (I think) said about predicting the present -- taking what's already in the present, extrapolating just a little, and then seeming prophetic when what you picked up on becomes big and relevant to everyone.
I enjoyed Snow Crash partly because I liked seeing how Neal Stephenson thought things were going to go. I did like his main characters, too, though I'm not sure how much they'll stay with me. It's the technological detail that I think is more likely to stick with me -- Y.T.'s dentata, the poons, etc.
One major drawback for me was the sheer amount of exposition going on in "conversations". It was basically the equivalent, in some chapters, of exhaustively recounting every result a character got by googling, whether entirely relevant or not.
Interesting ideas anyway.
For something written in 1992, this book has proved prophetic in some ways, which was interesting reading it from here in 2010. It reminds me of something Cory Doctorow (I think) said about predicting the present -- taking what's already in the present, extrapolating just a little, and then seeming prophetic when what you picked up on becomes big and relevant to everyone.
I enjoyed Snow Crash partly because I liked seeing how Neal Stephenson thought things were going to go. I did like his main characters, too, though I'm not sure how much they'll stay with me. It's the technological detail that I think is more likely to stick with me -- Y.T.'s dentata, the poons, etc.
One major drawback for me was the sheer amount of exposition going on in "conversations". It was basically the equivalent, in some chapters, of exhaustively recounting every result a character got by googling, whether entirely relevant or not.
Interesting ideas anyway.
