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Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
3.0
If you'll be reading a Neal Stephenson book, you got to keep in mind that he writes "hard sci-fi" and it will be like reading some snippets of academics journals or some history to make his book more grounded to reality. This review will contain mild spoilers, spoilers that will be crucial to the plot or twists will be hidden.
My first Neal Stephenson book is [b:Seveneves|22816087|Seveneves|Neal Stephenson|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1449142000s/22816087.jpg|42299347], which I quite enjoyed especially the first part, but I'm sometimes [honestly] lost with his explanations that made me want to pause for a while especially the topic is something I am not interested in [even though it's a crucial detail in the book]. It still became a problem for me, when reading this book (though it's lessened), since with all the topics about the human language, the bicamerial mind, the Tower of Babel, history of some civilizations and many others interested me. At some point, it kinda reminded me of Ted Chiang's [b:Stories of Your Life|223380|Stories of Your Life and Others|Ted Chiang|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1356138316s/223380.jpg|216334] since they are talking about language and stuffs, which is adapted to the big screen by Denis Villeneuve (check it out it's really good). And books by [a:Steven Pinker|3915|Steven Pinker|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1235758085p2/3915.jpg] - such as [b:The Language Instinct|5755|The Language Instinct How the Mind Creates Language|Steven Pinker|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1388342388s/5755.jpg|2422982] might be worth checking out, I honestly just read a few chapters/pages of his works.
Meanwhile for the plot itself, removing the sci-fi elements of this book, will be and might make it a little bit generic. As for the main characters - Hiro Protagonist and Y.T. or Yours Truly are well-written characters, even the secondary/side characters are well developed. Though this book does not mainly take place the Metaverse - the Metaverse is interesting especially through the eyes of Hiro which is a hacker.
This is a really fun read, tedious as some points (due to the infopocalypse). I'm going to rate this as 3.5 stars, but since goodreads is so outdated, I'll be rating it 3 stars, not really a four-star read for me.
My first Neal Stephenson book is [b:Seveneves|22816087|Seveneves|Neal Stephenson|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1449142000s/22816087.jpg|42299347], which I quite enjoyed especially the first part, but I'm sometimes [honestly] lost with his explanations that made me want to pause for a while especially the topic is something I am not interested in [even though it's a crucial detail in the book]. It still became a problem for me, when reading this book (though it's lessened), since with all the topics about the human language, the bicamerial mind, the Tower of Babel, history of some civilizations and many others interested me. At some point, it kinda reminded me of Ted Chiang's [b:Stories of Your Life|223380|Stories of Your Life and Others|Ted Chiang|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1356138316s/223380.jpg|216334] since they are talking about language and stuffs, which is adapted to the big screen by Denis Villeneuve (check it out it's really good). And books by [a:Steven Pinker|3915|Steven Pinker|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1235758085p2/3915.jpg] - such as [b:The Language Instinct|5755|The Language Instinct How the Mind Creates Language|Steven Pinker|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1388342388s/5755.jpg|2422982] might be worth checking out, I honestly just read a few chapters/pages of his works.
Meanwhile for the plot itself, removing the sci-fi elements of this book, will be
Spoiler
"an evil corporation/person trying to [mind] control people"This is a really fun read, tedious as some points (due to the infopocalypse). I'm going to rate this as 3.5 stars, but since goodreads is so outdated, I'll be rating it 3 stars, not really a four-star read for me.