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Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

5.0

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Revisiting Snow Crash was quite the experience. I was not quite as enamored with it as my first time reading it when I was a starry-eyed child unexposed to many of the satirical or philosophical elements that are portrayed in the book. I think much of the point of the book flew over my head. Coming back there are definitely flaws in the structure and story-telling from Neal Stephenson with his tangents of thought and rambling psychobabble that he can devolve down into. The flaws feel endearing though and the actual setting and nature of the book feel more relevant than ever. Any good science fiction book should reveal something about the essence of society and attack it. Snow Crash becomes a prescient parable against televangelism and the overall decay of the US and the world at large stemming from rampant capitalism.