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Snow crash

Neal Stephenson

3.89 AVERAGE

adventurous challenging funny mysterious reflective tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
dark mysterious reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No

This book is fine, the writing is a bit stilted, although I think that might be on purpose, but the overarching story is intriguing. There are large portions of info dumping throughout, but I think it's partly because when it was written, most people hadn't heard of the Internet or thought about virtual reality, so it's kind of like Moby Dick in that all of it needs to be explained thoroughly in order to understand the world. It was also a bit anticlimactic, but maybe also on purpose? So yeah, the book is fine.

World building is beyond excellent! Concept is beyond excellent.

The last 150 pages so I felt got bogged down with fighting which I found to get dull.

Wish the ending had been as strong as the first 2/3s of the read.

A wonderful story told in a magnificent way' - that I think ,will be an apt way of describing the book.
adventurous challenging tense medium-paced
adventurous dark funny sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
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Continuing my TBR project:
This is one the oldest selection on my TBR list - Originally added February 7, 2015.

Apparently, I’m not a big fan of cyberpunk!