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reviewed Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (Bantam spectra book)

Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash (Paperback, 2008, Bantam Spectra) 4 stars

In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo’s CosaNostra Pizza Inc., but in the …

Review of 'Snow Crash' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

Great long bursts of creative language, humor, tech inventions that parse, and a really cool development of a theory of mystical linguistic powers in Sumerian and Hebrew.

Sadly counterbalanced by long stretches of random, meaningless and frankly tedious violence, and predictable dystopian "America as evil corporation" spewage.

The grand fiinale was long, frenetic, and unsatisfying.