Snow Crash

While I can't say that I didn't dislike this book, I can't honestly say that I liked it either. At times fascinating, at times cutting-edge, and (yet) at times cumbersome, the book does serve as a romp through a futuristic United States with rampant technology and seemingly unending attempts to mold society into a single, homogenized mass.

Certain topics contained within were thought provoking: Sumerian myth, linguistic variation, virtual reality. Many of these most interesting concepts, though, ended up being ancillary and unnecessary to the plot. The book checks in at 470 pages; it could have just as easily been 150 to convey the basic story.

In short, I will probably find myself re-vising this book in the coming years, once I've done a little more research on some of the more interesting ideas (mentioned above).