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Great fun to read, full of awesome ideas. Does to linguistics what Dan Brown did to history, but hey Tim Send a noteboard - 13/04/2010 11:22:41 PM
I don't so much mind him butchering linguistics as long as the public at large doesn't mistake it for fact. Which is a lot less likely with a book like Snow Crash than one like The Da Vinci Code.

Quite impressive how he essentially predicted the internet before it happened, even if he did get a lot of the details wrong.

Here's a fairly old review of it on a website I visit sometimes.
Vigilantibus non dormientibus jura subveniunt.

—Nous disons en allemand : le guerre, le mort, le lune, alors que 'soleil' et 'amour' sont du sexe féminin : la soleil, la amour. La vie est neutre.

—La vie ? Neutre ? C'est très joli, et surtout très logique.
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Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson - discuss Yuri - 11/04/2010 07:59:35 AM 851 Views
Well, it was the first Stephenson book I read too... jh - 11/04/2010 10:28:42 AM 788 Views
What jh said. Though I haven't read Diamone Age. *NM* Palatine - 11/04/2010 05:22:26 PM 283 Views
Yep. lord-of-shadow - 11/04/2010 06:48:44 PM 696 Views
I love Anathem- easily one of my Top 10 Most Enjoyed Books beetnemesis - 12/04/2010 07:33:43 PM 620 Views
I enjoyed it very much. Rebekah - 11/04/2010 11:51:23 AM 742 Views
Yours Truly *NM* heartbreak - 12/04/2010 12:56:54 AM 318 Views
Thank you! *NM* Rebekah - 16/04/2010 07:58:46 PM 272 Views
I really want a "Poor Impulse Control" t-shirt. PhotoJim - 11/04/2010 08:04:29 PM 741 Views
Re: I really want a "Poor Impulse Control" t-shirt. Yuri - 13/04/2010 08:22:28 AM 688 Views
Without spoiling... awesome. *NM* beetnemesis - 12/04/2010 07:32:38 PM 261 Views
Great fun to read, full of awesome ideas. Does to linguistics what Dan Brown did to history, but hey Tim - 13/04/2010 11:22:41 PM 806 Views
He nailed Second Life, though. *NM* Ghavrel - 14/04/2010 01:40:06 AM 288 Views
I guess so. And it probably won't be too long before we have gargoyles walking around. *NM* Tim - 14/04/2010 08:46:57 AM 298 Views
and google earth is modeled after the "earth" program from the book... *NM* moondog - 14/04/2010 04:42:52 PM 282 Views
it is cyberpunk right? random thoughts - 16/04/2010 06:35:57 PM 626 Views
If you mean "Is he pushing a political agenda?", absolutely not. Tim - 18/04/2010 04:27:47 PM 681 Views
I may have to put it back on to be read list then random thoughts - 18/04/2010 07:34:57 PM 677 Views
What's your definition of "cyberpunk"? Tim - 18/04/2010 08:07:02 PM 696 Views
not having read much cyberpunk it isn't a well defined definition random thoughts - 19/04/2010 06:42:16 PM 688 Views
Theme-wise it's fairly close to what you describe, only not boring. Tim - 19/04/2010 08:02:16 PM 687 Views
I agree completely and I will random thoughts - 19/04/2010 08:39:36 PM 595 Views
Some sort of cyberpunk, yes. jh - 18/04/2010 05:29:32 PM 752 Views
It's often considered "post-cyberpunk" beetnemesis - 19/04/2010 05:23:15 PM 654 Views
cool thanks random thoughts - 19/04/2010 06:16:01 PM 670 Views
I feel there's definitely some anti-corporationism in there, but it's wildly exaggerated. *NM* Ghavrel - 19/04/2010 07:46:21 PM 272 Views
Sociological not political... like all good sci fi Yuri - 20/04/2010 08:17:21 AM 592 Views
Also: Mafia pizza deliverymen *NM* beetnemesis - 20/04/2010 08:23:00 PM 218 Views
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