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A review by aconnors12
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
2.0
***Did Not Finish***
Didn’t know what I was expecting from a book about the Metaverse from the 90s. I thought maybe I’d give it a shot. Maybe it would be nice to see what someone thought the Metaverse was and what it is today.
This book did not age well.
I made it through roughly 60 pages, fighting to give this book a chance after a couple off the cuff racial generalizations of made up countries and the frivlous tossing of the R-word. (It was the 90s, sure.) I even was willing to overlook for a few chapters the terrible Thesaurus like word dropping of random big letter adjectives mixed with lazy made up languages like “Taxilinga” the language of Taxi drivers. So much exposition and yet I still knew nothing of the world. Then I read through part of the Metaverse that was essentially a white supremacist community and that was a bit of a flag there.
Really what came down to it was that this protagonist was like every single twitch gamer bro that thought he was better than everyone else and “pwned” everyone that I grew up with and to this day know exist.
The only reason I didn’t give it 1 star is that for a book in the 90s, it does show virtual reality in a very similar light to what we see with the internet today.
Didn’t know what I was expecting from a book about the Metaverse from the 90s. I thought maybe I’d give it a shot. Maybe it would be nice to see what someone thought the Metaverse was and what it is today.
This book did not age well.
I made it through roughly 60 pages, fighting to give this book a chance after a couple off the cuff racial generalizations of made up countries and the frivlous tossing of the R-word. (It was the 90s, sure.) I even was willing to overlook for a few chapters the terrible Thesaurus like word dropping of random big letter adjectives mixed with lazy made up languages like “Taxilinga” the language of Taxi drivers. So much exposition and yet I still knew nothing of the world. Then I read through part of the Metaverse that was essentially a white supremacist community and that was a bit of a flag there.
Really what came down to it was that this protagonist was like every single twitch gamer bro that thought he was better than everyone else and “pwned” everyone that I grew up with and to this day know exist.
The only reason I didn’t give it 1 star is that for a book in the 90s, it does show virtual reality in a very similar light to what we see with the internet today.