/lit/ - Literature

So how long until Snow Crash happens irl, you guys? I say maybe twenty to forty years.

>yfw Facebook is the Metaverse
>tfw American government already selling itself to corporations
>tfw HOAs already control neighborhoods like the Housing developments
>tfw, tfw

http://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2014/03/25/facebook-buys-oculus-virtual-reality-gaming-startup-for-2-billion/

Snowcrash is an obvious answer.

What do you guys think about snow crash? Legitimate science fiction or a pulpy action novel?

>Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.

Why 25?

The Rat Things are a silly idea
>There are also talking dogs in Holy Fire
The whole 5-page rant on religion and linguistics was a little much
>was any of that shit actually based in fact?
The 'pooning' of cars is a cool idea but pretty much means we won't see a movie out of this
The Metaverse is a great concept, wish there would have been more of it
Hiro never got to have sex with Y.T.
Mixing our brain stem with binary code is a great idea, was probably new at the time
WTF was Reason all about? Wouldn't the shooter get contaminated?
Did Da5id ever get better?
Did Stephenesen really popularize the term 'avatar'?
Very exciting climax.

What do you guys think of Snow Crash by Stephenson?
Finished reading it last night. With his satyrical style, it's a miracle how he made the world feel real. The plot, while interesting, was a bit tacked on, like an after thought. Still, his info dumps were fascinating most of the time. I enjoyed the infamous five page toilet paper digression just for his style.

So /lit/, have any of you asked your relatives for books for christmas? Pic related, also I asked for Moab is my Washpot by Stephen Fry.

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Start with Snow Crash. It's a good start into his cannon of work. If you like it, think about reading Diamond Age.

Hey /lit/, so I finished this book last week after you talked to me about it

Is this a good book?

>Cyberpunk/sci-fi thread
Did anybody here *actually* like Necromancer?

But I have.

Snow Crash By Neal Stephenson

Just finished this, and it is pretty much my favourite book ever
>internet motorcycle swordfights at 50,000 miles an hour, complete with collateral damage
>ends with a cybernuke being reprogrammed into an ad for a computer security firm

Raven is Nathan Explosion

Everytime I try to engage in some kind of discussion with some guy I know, he keeps pressing me to read this book, he swears it's awesome. Is it any good?

>1-800-THE-COPS
>all major credit cards

ok /lit/ i lol'd