3.44k reviews for:

Snow crash

Neal Stephenson

3.89 AVERAGE

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

Really interesting experience, reading this in my late 30's and so incredibly aware the entire time how it works have blown my mind in my late teens/early 20's. Nostalgia for an experience that while I didn't exactly have, absolutely went through very similar rounds around that time - and for the person I was then, and the person I was becoming

hard to believe that this was written in early 90s. By far, Snow Crash describes our closest future. Well, disregarding the post apocalyptic politicks, the technology and all that are so now...
adventurous dark informative tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

mackenziejfrye's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 50%

I tried…I tried so hard. Honestly, most of what is going on made zero sense to me and half of the sentences I had to reread at least twice to even interpret and they still did not permeate my brain. The vibe is cool in some ways and I think it’s great that the metaverse was coined by this book…however I have so much hate for this book I simply can’t keep going. Peace. 
challenging lighthearted mysterious tense medium-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