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blue squares posted:Can anyone explain how in the hell Snow Crash ended up on Time's list of 100 best books since 1923? It was a fun read, but c'mon. Pages and pages of dry lecturing on Sumerian myth and the characters don't have one iota of an arc. Snow Crash is a lot more interesting if you read it as a satire of Cyberpunk. It's a book that starts off with a pizza delivery driver doing deadly serious deliveries for a corporate mafia (all of that literal) and IIRC (been awhile since I read it) ends with the aforementioned pizza samurai, also a huge nerd, driving a motorcycle into a crowd of thousands in cyberspace and setting off a virtual fireworks display while saving the day. You have corporate governments with patriotic wage slaves tied down by inane bureaucracy while a Texan billionaire is running an aircraft carrier. It takes everything that cyberpunk tried to do and turns it on its head beautifully.
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