Jessamyn is jealous that of the fact that there are still Neal Stephenson books out there that I haven’t read. I’m pretty happy with it as well. Though I’m quickly running out of stuff to read. After Cryptonomicon, Zodiac, his Stephen Bury stuff, and now Snow Crash, I, too, am running out of books to read.

But the good news is that Snow Crash didn’t disappoint me. It’s extraordinary yet completely believable, and like his other writing filled with endless amounts of esoteric knowledge about everything from programming to ancient Japanese culture. And while the characters are fairly two-dimensional, and his fixation on the defaming of his young female characters is as strong as ever, he is able to keep me reading at a very quick clip all the way to the end. The end result is a book that makes me feel smart, that makes me continue to feel good about the fact that there is someone as smart as Stephenson out there writing and thinking about the world.

But I think I am going to hold off on reading The Diamond Age. Not at all unlike other writers of his ilk, I feel I need a break after reading him.

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Snow Crash :: by (published 1992) read: 1 November 2002 rating: [+]

Snow Crash ::
by (published 1992)
read: 1 November 2002
rating: [+]