A review by queergoth_reads
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

challenging mysterious slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.0

Prefacing this review with the face that I read this for a book club and would never have picked it myself. 

I really dislike this. I know it was written in the 90s and there should be some leeway for things but this book aged very poorly. It feels like a self indulgent, self insert. The orientalism is very strong and it made me so uncomfortable. It felt like maybe it wanted to try and be satire but I didn't get that. It just felt racist, misogynistic and ableist. 

There was absolutely no reason Y.T. needed to be 15 other than to fit some creepy fantasy. 

I read somewhere that is was recommended reading a tech company and honestly when this is what people in stem have been hailing at the holy grail, it's no wonder there is so little empathy and diversity (I say this as someone in a stem career).

I will say some of the ideas we cool but the execution was all over the place. 


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