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A review by feelsattack
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
adventurous
dark
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
0.5
This book............................
Was awful.
I don't even know where to start, or what to say. I mainly base my ratings on how entertained I was because I don't like being overly analytical and critical--it takes the fun out of reading for me. But I was not entertained, at all. If this book wasn't for book club, I would have dropped it at 20%. Reading this book felt like a chore, and I understand the "first half is setting up, second half is the action," but Stephenson is so boring with it. It was chaotic, difficult to understand, long-winded sentences whose meaning became lost upon me once I reached the period at the end. If someone wanted to understand anarcho-capitalism, this book is the way to do it. It was messy, pure pandemonium and not in a good way, which made reading it a COMPLETE DRAG.
The humour was mediocre. I only found it funny at certain parts, but they were not funny enough to make up for the awfulness of this book.
I literally couldn't care less about the main characters, I literally found Uncle Enzo and Ng to be more interesting than Hiro and Y.T. Raven is so out of place, Stephenson tried to connect him to the plot and make him cool and all, but it just didn't work. He was just... there...
I think the thing that made me the most upset was the info-dump. This wouldn't be concerning to anyone, except that I typically LOVE info-dumps. But I was so annoyed with this book that the info dumps genuinely made me angry. They were incredibly boring, written poorly, not balanced AT ALL. There's a good and proper way to do info dumps and this was NOT IT.
The only reason I decided to be nice and add a +0.5 to the rating was because of the very few parts that made me laugh in my head a little. If it wasn't for that, I would have given this book a complete 0/5 stars. This book has single-handedly convinced me to avoid Anathem and Seveneves, which previous to reading Snow Crash, I was very excited to one day pick up and read. Not anymore. I don't want to waste my time reading trash science fiction. It's for books like these that I'm glad I use the library and never buy my own books.
Was awful.
I don't even know where to start, or what to say. I mainly base my ratings on how entertained I was because I don't like being overly analytical and critical--it takes the fun out of reading for me. But I was not entertained, at all. If this book wasn't for book club, I would have dropped it at 20%. Reading this book felt like a chore, and I understand the "first half is setting up, second half is the action," but Stephenson is so boring with it. It was chaotic, difficult to understand, long-winded sentences whose meaning became lost upon me once I reached the period at the end. If someone wanted to understand anarcho-capitalism, this book is the way to do it. It was messy, pure pandemonium and not in a good way, which made reading it a COMPLETE DRAG.
The humour was mediocre. I only found it funny at certain parts, but they were not funny enough to make up for the awfulness of this book.
I literally couldn't care less about the main characters, I literally found Uncle Enzo and Ng to be more interesting than Hiro and Y.T. Raven is so out of place, Stephenson tried to connect him to the plot and make him cool and all, but it just didn't work. He was just... there...
I think the thing that made me the most upset was the info-dump. This wouldn't be concerning to anyone, except that I typically LOVE info-dumps. But I was so annoyed with this book that the info dumps genuinely made me angry. They were incredibly boring, written poorly, not balanced AT ALL. There's a good and proper way to do info dumps and this was NOT IT.
The only reason I decided to be nice and add a +0.5 to the rating was because of the very few parts that made me laugh in my head a little. If it wasn't for that, I would have given this book a complete 0/5 stars. This book has single-handedly convinced me to avoid Anathem and Seveneves, which previous to reading Snow Crash, I was very excited to one day pick up and read. Not anymore. I don't want to waste my time reading trash science fiction. It's for books like these that I'm glad I use the library and never buy my own books.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship