badb_catha 's review for:

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

3.0

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It’s interesting, and even today has aged pretty well. It is at times very original, although the debt it owes to Julian Jayne’s nonfiction philosophy of mind text, “The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind” is clear and obvious - almost as if Stephenson read that book and Neuromancer and this novel was birthed. At times, it’s quite funny, and the social criticisms are often trenchant and well observed. Still, the ending is rushed and to me unsatisfactory, and the seemingly uncritical sexualization of a 15 year old girl bothers me enough to knock a star off, and call it 3.49 stars.