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A review by tahnok
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
3.5
This was an important book to me as a kid but boy did it not stand up to closer scrutiny.
It's a Gen X vision of the future, and it's kind of fun for most of it, but there's some big flaws
The ending felt super rushed, and chaotic, and hard to follow as it moves all over the place. This explains why I literally never remember how it ends despite reading it three times
But the biggest flaw is with how YT is treated on the raft.there's no way to say that she slept with Raven consensualy. She's 15. She's trapped and can't leave and Raven is clearly capable and willing to be extremely violent. And her being underage seems unimportant to the plot. She could easily have been 18, which would help a little bit make the scene less gross
It's a Gen X vision of the future, and it's kind of fun for most of it, but there's some big flaws
The ending felt super rushed, and chaotic, and hard to follow as it moves all over the place. This explains why I literally never remember how it ends despite reading it three times
But the biggest flaw is with how YT is treated on the raft.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual assault