“Snow Crash” is supposed to be a Cyberpunk novel. In my humble opinion everything that makes “Neuromancer” an amazing groundbreaking book is exactly what this book doesn’t possess.
I though “Snow Crash” was so stupid, and I will not waste time explaining why, that after almost 300(of 440) pages I just gave up. I took me weeks to come to that and I think that the feeling that I was reading rubbish was there from the very beginning. But I didn’t want to quit because according to many readers this book belonged in the same Cyberpunk universe that was created thanks to “Neuromancer”.
So since I wasn’t getting the same effect that William Gibson is able to impose in me with his books and short stories, I read some bad reviews of “Snow Crash” in Amazon. All of them had something that reflected my discontent, so I thought it would be healthier for me just to leave the book.
What a relief!
Cheers
CristianHC