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Snow Crash
by Neal Stephenson
3.5⭐ really. I originally read this book shortly after it came out in 2000, when I started the reread at first I thought it had really aged well but as I went on the cracks started to show. The story suffers from the author's need to info-dump a great deal of Sumerian mythos on the reader at various in the book, and it's basically just a librarian stand in reading stuff to the reader. Also, a lot of the key points in the plot seem to hinge on coincidental meetings. Okay, one or two sure but when it stacks up to random characters just running into each in all sorts of unlikely places, it feels like the plot is just dragging the characters along.
Also, the timeline doesn't really work. The story reaches back to world war II where a couple of the characters fathers were Japanese POW's and also back to Vietnam where another character served. In order for these elements to coincide with the characters stated age, the time when the bulk of the story is happening is ~2005 and there is no way that the setting (governmental collapse, the rise of the burb-claves, the privatization of armed forces, et al) could exist in the manner described given that it's rising from the "real world" of the 80's & 90's.
Also, the timeline doesn't really work. The story reaches back to world war II where a couple of the characters fathers were Japanese POW's and also back to Vietnam where another character served. In order for these elements to coincide with the characters stated age, the time when the bulk of the story is happening is ~2005 and there is no way that the setting (governmental collapse, the rise of the burb-claves, the privatization of armed forces, et al) could exist in the manner described given that it's rising from the "real world" of the 80's & 90's.