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Bezig met laden... Snow Crash (origineel 1992; editie 2000)door Neal Stephenson (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This is the first Neal Stephenson novel I have read, and it's a joyful mess of a story. It's a cyberpunk novel from 1992, and the way it portrays the internet (making it a virtual reality interface) still feels relevant and entertaining today, although some details are off (particularly how Stephenson seems to assume that full access to it will be basically reserved to a technological or social elite, and that most information will cost money). It's also fast-paced, epic and, above all, it has some very interesting speculative ideas about the nature of language and Sumerian mythology. It also has some sharp satire of globalization before it was actually a thing. Why is it a mess? Well, it is not clear what it wants to be. It has a lot of action, but plot advance often comes in the form of talking heads speculating about ideas. The action part and the deep speculative part just do not seem to mix very well, and although I enjoyed the first I would have liked more of the second. Y.T.'s involvement with the plot is a bit far-fetched. It's just like the author decided the story needed a female protagonist to act as a counterpart to Hiro. And she's a great character and her parts of the novel are a lot of fun to read, it's just that her relationship with the main plot is quite forced. Despite the problems, the novel was always interesting and entertaining to read. Often a flawed but ambitious effort can have more to offer than a more polished but safer one. So for that reason, even though I probably should give it four stars, I'll give it five.
Hiro Protagonist (who has chosen his own name, of course) turns out to be entertaining company, and Mr. Stephenson turns out to be an engaging guide to an onrushing tomorrow that is as farcical as it is horrific. Stephenson has not stepped, he has vaulted onto the literary stage with this novel. A cross between Neuromancer and Thomas Pynchon's Vineland. This is no mere hyperbole. Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)Goldmann (45302) Is opgenomen inBevatHeeft als studiegids voor studentenPrijzenErelijsten
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HTML:The brilliantly realized (The New York Times Book Review) modern classic that coined the term metaverseone of Times 100 best English-language novels and a foundational text of the cyberpunk movement (Wired) In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzos CosoNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse hes a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus thats striking down hackers everywhere, he races along the neon-lit streets on a search-and-destroy mission for the shadowy virtual villain threatening to bring about infocalypse. Snow Crash is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous . . . youll recognize it immediately. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Written in a hip, punk style with attitude to spare, the two main characters are Hiro Protagonist, a super hacker and swordsman, and his business partner Y.T., a spunky 15-year old skater-courier girl. Together they unravel a plot that relies on ancient Sumerian myth to strip mankind of any individual thought.
The book was released in the early 1990s and yet feels fresh and new due to so many of the author's concepts about the internet and privatization of society coming true. This a thrill-ride of a book with multiple high-octane action scenes and is just a blast to read. ( )