lmaru 's review for:

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

DID NOT FINISH: 30%

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This was my second read.  It didn't age well. I thought it was an innovative plot when I read it in the early aughts. What seemed so cool then, the metaverse and the librarian (who has at their fingertips all the information in the world!), now seems ho hum. I appreciate the  dystopian capitalist satire, but it is too on the nose to be enjoyable, and having a hacker main character (literally Hiro Protagonist) who is also a samurai sword fighter makes me cringe. The 15 year-old skater girl has no depth and is overly precocious. I do remember feeling fascinated by its deep dive into ancient Sumerian texts but that hasn't come up yet (at 30%) and given how much I am not liking the rest of the book, I don't trust my former opinion...