Snow Crash

[maffyew]

I hate you all for not locking me in a room with a copy of Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash and telling me that I'm not coming out until I've read it. Ten pages in, and I'm already grinning from ear to ear and wanting to read more

Comments

[silverski]

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snow crash is twenty three kinds of awesome, yes.
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and if the book ends up tanking for you.. the problem
is not with the book, but with you.
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just so you know! ;>
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[maffyew]

Duly noted. This book hasn't even got started yet, so I suspect it's not going to lose momentum anytime soon.

[callistra]

I liked arcanum, but found it completely unplayable very quickly. We all tried, and all of us gave up. It looked so pretty, too.

[maffyew]

Arcanum is a terrible game, if placed alongside the Fallout series for comparison, to which it owes a great deal of inspiration.

It has a poorly designed user interface, they tacked unnecessary "real time combat" onto a game whose fanbase would find little appeal to (this addition caused the turn based option to be a mere shadow of the Fallout equivilant). A lacklustre multiplayer and editing tools component stole far too much development time that could (read: should) have been spent making a masterful single player experience.

My biggest disappointment was that I was expecting a Fallout game in a Steampunk universe. It simply wasn't.

I've finished both Fallout games several times and can still play them to this day. I've never finished Arcanum despite several attempts, but the world that they created in it was fantastic and inspired, the art direction was amazing, and the title menu music still sends chills down my spine.

[lefae]

Heh. Snow Crash was the first book my brother lent me when I moved to Perth, many many moons ago.

I must read it again I think.

[maffyew]

It's been a while since I've read a book that I'm inspired to re-read later on, so fingers crossed for this one.

Well... not that long. Max Brooks' World War Z fit into that category for me.

[missmalice]

As much as I really like Steampunk visually, I'm with you - gimme cyberpunk over steampunk anyday.

[stickykitty]

Dentata.

[maffyew]

Your vagina has WHAT now? :O