It’s a fantastic fucking book, one of my all-time favorites in this life. It’s wild as fuck and absolutely packed with mind-bending shit, but still manages to feel real and grounded. Feels like a mixture of Hitchhiker’s Guide, Shadowrun and Snatch, with characters getting wrapped up in each other’s schemes against the backdrop of a balkanized hypercapitalist hellscape, where information is king and there truly is no society.

I am leaving out so, so much.

If you ignore most of the oversexualization of the secondary main character “YT”, who is an underage girl. Then yeah it’s a decent read filled with absolutely insane shit. The first chapter gives a pretty good feel for what the rest of the book is going to be like when he describes the main character and finally gives his job occupation.

It’s great. Stephenson writes at a breakneck pace, especially in the first act. It explores a ton of wild concepts without asking much of your suspension of disbelief, especially since VRChat is a thing now lol

Fucking love this book

It’s good. I enjoyed it. It’s like the “post-Cyberpunk” Cyberpunk book, though. So if you haven’t read the grand-daddy of the genre (Neuromancer) you should probably do that before reading Snow Crash just to compare/contrast the genre.