Is Snow Crash worth reading?

[Kitsunexus]

I dunno, I hear like a lot of people practically jerking off to this book, and when I read the details it just seems like a weird mix of Neuromancer, Johnny Mnemonic and that old CD-I game Burncycle. I'm into sci-fi I guess, the only sci-fi books I've read though are 1984 (that was only vaguely sci-fi), Fahrenheit 451, Neuromancer, and stuff of that ilk.

Is it worth it?

[schnuth]

Snow Crash is one of my favorite books so I'd have to say yes.  Snow Crash is probably the ultimate in nerd/geek/otaku wish fulfillment, hence all the "jerking off" about it.  If you like cyberpunk that doesn't take itself too seriously (just seriously enough) with a dash of pre-Christianity religion mixed in, this book just might be for you!  Besides the main character's name is Hiro Protagonist.  How cool is that? 

I'd recommend The Diamond Age as well.  It expands the idea of claves from Snow Crash but still has all the crazy technology.  I find the Victorian era dreadfully boring.  But Stephenson's Neo Victorians kept me quite intrigued.

Aaron

[Kitsunexus]

Whoah, this got buried! Thanks for the info man, I'll check this book out. ^_^

[Turbo D]

I don't read much books. I mainly read manga. Would you recommend it to a dude like me?

[Kitsunexus]

I don't read much books. I mainly read manga. Would you recommend it to a dude like me?

Oh god, a mangaloid.  Overpriced boring Japanese comic books...

[Hobo Xiphas]

Keranu linked me to this thread for good reason I guess.  If there was ever a question right up my alley, this is it.

Snow Crash is not not for you if you want serious cyberpunk.  In many ways it is a parody of the genre, and in my opinion, it is the nail in the coffin that killed the genre, showing how retardedly obsolete the genre had become.  It is a great read if you are looking for something funny, and I would recommend it for the first chapter alone.

If you want some more serious Stevenson stuff, try Cryptomicron.  It's good post-cyberpunk fiction involving two guys trying to set up a data haven, searching for Japanese war gold, and World War II cryptbreaking.  I don't think your ADD could take reading the whole book though, it is really long.   Snow Crash really does fit your hyperactive posting style, Kitsune, so try that. 

[guyjin]

Oh god, a mangaloid.  Overpriced boring Japanese comic books...

Find a volume of "nausicaa and the valley of the wind". read it. if it does not impress you, no manga ever will.

[Hobo Xiphas]

The only Japanese comic books apropos to this thread are Ghost in the Shell, the last bastion of classic cyberpunk, and Appleseed.

Take your other weird non-cyberpunk crap to another thread, messers!  Books are better than comics anyways.

[Kitsunexus]

Oh god, a mangaloid.  Overpriced boring Japanese comic books...

Find a volume of "nausicaa and the valley of the wind". read it. if it does not impress you, no manga ever will.

Actually I have read it, and it's actually OK. Not $14.95 per issue good, but it's OK.