Reviews tagging 'Racial slurs'

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

29 reviews

aconnors12's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism and Racial slurs

janalg's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, and Violence

Moderate: Xenophobia, Racism, Racial slurs, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Drug abuse, Gore, Addiction, Alcohol, and Classism

maidinnah's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

 Couldn't look past some pretty problematic passages, and wished some parts could have been written more leanly. Moreover, ending was too abrupt and ambiguous, but otherwise a fun romp with some really interesting story ideas

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Sexual harassment and Racial slurs

kt_jams's review against another edition

adventurous tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Racism and Racial slurs

elenaj15's review

adventurous mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

I’m not usually a science fiction reader but I really liked this book! It had a slower start but picked up quickly and was really gripping. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Racial slurs

flexagoon's review

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

Great book. I'd absolutely recommend Snow Crash to anyone who is interested in cyberpunk, as this book is basically THE original cyberpunk book.

As others said, the ending is a bit lackluster and Deus Ex Machina, but it still didn't leave me disappointed after finishing the book.

The plot itself is confusing at times, but generally really interesting. People who like fast-paced action stories will probably love it. The book also has good worldbuilding.

I didn't really get the "metavirus" stuff but it was still interesting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Gun violence, Racial slurs, and Violence

Moderate: Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Racial slurs

Minor: Blood, Drug use, and War

erikwmj's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny informative mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Sexual harassment, Adult/minor relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Xenophobia, Misogyny, Murder, Homophobia, Addiction, and Racism

Minor: War, Gun violence, and Gore

strawberrypinch's review

adventurous dark funny mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Gore, Blood, Body horror, Gun violence, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Colonisation, Xenophobia, War, Death, Police brutality, Classism, Drug use, Cursing, and Drug abuse

Minor: Sexism, Genocide, Homophobia, Addiction, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, Car accident, Kidnapping, Medical content, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, and Rape

queergoth_reads's review against another edition

challenging mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.0

Prefacing this review with the face that I read this for a book club and would never have picked it myself. 

I really dislike this. I know it was written in the 90s and there should be some leeway for things but this book aged very poorly. It feels like a self indulgent, self insert. The orientalism is very strong and it made me so uncomfortable. It felt like maybe it wanted to try and be satire but I didn't get that. It just felt racist, misogynistic and ableist. 

There was absolutely no reason Y.T. needed to be 15 other than to fit some creepy fantasy. 

I read somewhere that is was recommended reading a tech company and honestly when this is what people in stem have been hailing at the holy grail, it's no wonder there is so little empathy and diversity (I say this as someone in a stem career).

I will say some of the ideas we cool but the execution was all over the place. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Misogyny, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Racial slurs, Fatphobia, and Ableism

scorbus's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Pedophilia, and Racial slurs