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aiveejay 's review for:
Snow Crash
by Neal Stephenson
The author’s bio indicates that Stephenson is married, but this book has me convinced that he’s never interacted with a woman before—and definitely not a 15 year old girl, but maybe that’s for the best. This book includes some genuinely interesting commentary on the consequences of extreme capitalism, corporatism, consumerism, materialism, etc, and some of the chapters read as cool, self contained short stories. Overall, though, the writing itself isn’t good, the religion/virus logic that’s meant to underpin the whole plot is contrived and unconvincing, and the characters are upsettingly shallow. The Metaverse undeniably would have been cooler if I’d read this in the 90s when it was published, but Gibson did it first and better, so there’s no point in wasting your time reading this solely for that.