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A review by metacom
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
3.0
This book is dumb. Full stop. But I did enjoy listening to it. 3.5/5
There are a few different things that I think would have made my time listening better, first I think that if I had read any cyberpunk books prior to this it would have been better, I understand where the book came from, but some of the satire that the book contains was too ridiculous for me to enjoy wholeheartedly. Secondly, I think if I had a stronger knowledge of the actual origins of religious myths, there were times when I couldn't tell if the book was making stuff up or pulling from real texts.
One theme in this book is hyper-capitalism, which Stephenson does his fair share of making jokes about and ridiculing, but I don't think the ideas were really explored beyond pointing them out and laughing. I spent a lot of time while reading this book trying to figure out what I thought of it, one thing that i kept coming back to was how I read mostly science fiction and with that comes suspension of disbelief. While reading this book I struggled to suspend my disbelief, too many things were just odd enough or not explored enough for me to completely enjoy.
Science Fiction in large is a genre that deals with philosophical questions about any number of different things. In this case the intersectionality of religion, technology, and capitalism, my problem is that i came out of the book wondering what question was asked? Stephenson delves into all of these topics and more coming out on top with a story which answers questions that were never asked.
I still liked the book, as i think about the different literary parts I cant think of any which stick out as strong than the others but together they all come together as a book which isn't half bad.
There are a few different things that I think would have made my time listening better, first I think that if I had read any cyberpunk books prior to this it would have been better, I understand where the book came from, but some of the satire that the book contains was too ridiculous for me to enjoy wholeheartedly. Secondly, I think if I had a stronger knowledge of the actual origins of religious myths, there were times when I couldn't tell if the book was making stuff up or pulling from real texts.
One theme in this book is hyper-capitalism, which Stephenson does his fair share of making jokes about and ridiculing, but I don't think the ideas were really explored beyond pointing them out and laughing. I spent a lot of time while reading this book trying to figure out what I thought of it, one thing that i kept coming back to was how I read mostly science fiction and with that comes suspension of disbelief. While reading this book I struggled to suspend my disbelief, too many things were just odd enough or not explored enough for me to completely enjoy.
Science Fiction in large is a genre that deals with philosophical questions about any number of different things. In this case the intersectionality of religion, technology, and capitalism, my problem is that i came out of the book wondering what question was asked? Stephenson delves into all of these topics and more coming out on top with a story which answers questions that were never asked.
I still liked the book, as i think about the different literary parts I cant think of any which stick out as strong than the others but together they all come together as a book which isn't half bad.