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3.89 AVERAGE
3.89 AVERAGE
Well, I hated this. I didn't think I would love it when I got it from a white elephant, but after reading the first 30 pages or so last December I thought I would at least like it. The dystopian society seemed cool and the premise seemed interesting, but I don't think I fully comprehended a single thing that happened.
Society has become so capitalist that everything is owned by corporations, so much that they are considered countries of their own. Inflation has blown out of control. The world's largest pizza chain is controled by the Mafia. Hiro Protagonist is a half-Black, half-Asian hacker and swordsman who is also a pizza delivery guy. Y.T. is a fifteen-year-old girl who is a Kourier, or a futuristic delivery person. When a virus that may have connections to Sumerian mythology starts spreading in the virtual reality that Hiro helped create, they have to help stop it from destroying the minds of people everywhere.
I don't think I could explain a single other thing about this book. I don't understand almost everything that happened. The only thing I liked about this was that the main character was Blasian and there was a powerful disabled side character, and I would say there was a teenage girl main character that wasn't sexualized, but that stopped being true. There were slurs against Black and Asian characters, which would have been one thing since the main character identifies with both and the characters he was opposing used the slurs, but there were also slurs against Jewish and disabled people for no reason. The disabled character wasn't there and there were no Jewish characters. The amount of info-dumping wasn't funny, and I usually handle info-dumping really well and even like it sometimes. Let's not even talk about how the fifteen-year-old girl, who had NO REASON to be fifteen, had sex (e.g. statutory rape) with a grown man, as well as how unrealistically the sex itself was written. I don't feel like talking about this anymore.
+ diverse characters?
- underutilized virtual reality
- flat characters
- info-dumping
- connections between mythology and current-day not clear enough
Society has become so capitalist that everything is owned by corporations, so much that they are considered countries of their own. Inflation has blown out of control. The world's largest pizza chain is controled by the Mafia. Hiro Protagonist is a half-Black, half-Asian hacker and swordsman who is also a pizza delivery guy. Y.T. is a fifteen-year-old girl who is a Kourier, or a futuristic delivery person. When a virus that may have connections to Sumerian mythology starts spreading in the virtual reality that Hiro helped create, they have to help stop it from destroying the minds of people everywhere.
I don't think I could explain a single other thing about this book. I don't understand almost everything that happened. The only thing I liked about this was that the main character was Blasian and there was a powerful disabled side character, and I would say there was a teenage girl main character that wasn't sexualized, but that stopped being true. There were slurs against Black and Asian characters, which would have been one thing since the main character identifies with both and the characters he was opposing used the slurs, but there were also slurs against Jewish and disabled people for no reason. The disabled character wasn't there and there were no Jewish characters. The amount of info-dumping wasn't funny, and I usually handle info-dumping really well and even like it sometimes. Let's not even talk about how the fifteen-year-old girl, who had NO REASON to be fifteen, had sex (e.g. statutory rape) with a grown man, as well as how unrealistically the sex itself was written. I don't feel like talking about this anymore.
+ diverse characters?
- underutilized virtual reality
- flat characters
- info-dumping
- connections between mythology and current-day not clear enough
In which the mafia delivers pizza and church is franchised.
This world was so imaginative and cool I could feel myself smiling reading whenever the tangents or descriptions popped up.
I weirdly struggled through the back quarter making it an overall 3.5 for me but I equally blame weddings and Stampede for making me read at a pace of 1 page per hour
This world was so imaginative and cool I could feel myself smiling reading whenever the tangents or descriptions popped up.
I weirdly struggled through the back quarter making it an overall 3.5 for me but I equally blame weddings and Stampede for making me read at a pace of 1 page per hour
The really interesting thing about Snow Crash is that it’s not very good
I’ve got like somewhere between 50-100 pages left and I just can’t get myself to finish it lol, a bunch of cool shit happened at different points in the book tho fr. I donno lol
adventurous
funny
informative
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
funny
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Fast paced writing style, easy to read. Lots of action, but often a bit stupid and illogical and superficial. Cardboard characters, adolescent fantasies. Why is there a plot line involving a graphic sex scene with a 15 year old girl. The background story about the Aleutian Islands was interesting, but the whole Babylon backstory seemed utterly nonsense. The ending was initially funny but the last part was a let down. 2½ stars
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No