/lit/ - Literature

Fun. It was written before weeaboos and modern Internet culture were realities so your criticisms aren't really that good, although the characters are pretty standard 2D cyberpunk stock.

>>6623406
Are you religious?

It's over the top, and it knows it. It's as much as a genuine cyberpunk novel as it is a glorious pisstake on the entire genre. Was the subtle as a brick humor of the main character being literally called "Hiro Protagonist" somehow lost on you?

Speaking of audiobooks, I never would have gotten through this if I had had to actually read it. I barely made it with someone reading it to me.

>>6623425
Yes
>>6623427
Yes I can understand the absurdist nature of the book and I liked how cheeky it was to call him Hiro Protagonist. But outside that and a few elements of the background, it didn't seem to be parodying much and was just total shit. The characters went nowhere, the plot went nowhere outside of some Dan Brown tier shit that built up to an anticlimactic ending. All I could think of reading it was pic related.

>>6623501
Wow good to hear thoughts of a fellow Christian with class and distinction
*tips fedora*

>>6623514
I only brought it up because religion was featured prominently in the book. It had some DaVinci Code conspiracy in it but it went nowhere.

>>6623501
Well I mostly enjoyed it because I was a teen when I first read it and it was genuine fun to me, but thinking about the novel now I can enjoy how it's more or less composed as a cyberpunk RPG one shot adventure, self contained and going all out with stupid self-serving ideas and using tropes to paradoxical extents. It's just shamelessly itself, and that I like. The fact that it goes nowhere doesn't really annoy me too much, but that's because, reading it, I didn't expect it to go nowhere. If you want, it's the perfect entertainment Simulacra, being as empty as it is of any "actual content". Even if it wasn't meant as such, it's an incredible satyre of itself and its precursors.

>>6623406
Kill yourself.

I can't even imagine what a humorless cunt you'd have to be to have that reaction to Snow Crash.

>>6623406
Do you want a bandaid for where the nippon steel cut you?