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Just picked up Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
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Any recommendations on what to read after this one? I also have Piranesi Susanna Clarke on my backlog, but would like something in a similar technological fashion as Snow Crash
Unrelated, but I can never not recommend Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon .
Magnum opus. ~1000 pages of what-happens-next, unresolved until the very last paragraph of the very last page.
Cryptonomicon is his best work imo. It is such a vibe all the way through, and absolutely hilarious at times. The masturbation analysis and graphs, and the cereal tangent get me every time.
Cryptonomicon is such a good book. Even the audiobook is done really well.
Book was written like it was a wannabe movie script. Predictable and kinda shallow, IMO. Not bad, but not really great either.
I thought the meta-narrative around data structure and patterns (Enoch Root) against the Indiana Jones-esque adventures was absolutely amazing.
Just looked this up and it has gone straight on to my backlog, thanks for the recommendation!
Cheers and enjoy!
Snowcrash is such an entertaining romp, made all the more spectacular considering that when published, ideas like avatar and cyberspace (both terms coined by Stephenson I’m told) were wildly futuristic, bordering on precognitive, considered now passé only a generation later.
Stephenson is a seer.