A review by mountainerd
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

4.0

It takes a lot for me to give a four-star rating for a book but man was this a great read. Perhaps it's the nerd in me that loves all the technology that Neal wrote about in 1992 that would've been novel ideas then but are mostly true now. The level of historicity and linguistic research is shockingly deep and translating that into a technology virus is absolutely brilliant. Finally, there's something to be said about an author who can spend so much time developing a story, wrap it fairly quickly, all the while leaving you feeling satisfied and not wanting _more_ words to finish it. Especially with this ending; I feel like I know the secret sauce that the Sopranos writers used to write the ending of that series. This is so abrupt but perfect I actually said, "Awesome. THAT'S AWESOME!" out loud after finishing it.