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Okay, so I've been really trying to keep up on my readings of Snow Crash.
This book is so much better than Smart Mobs- I know I've said that before, but every time i read more, it re-strikes me. I feel like even though there are times that I'm not entirely sure why something is happening, I know that it will have a purpose and its intention of existing will be explained in short time. I spoke to one of my peers about it- she had read it when she was younger, and had said she really enjoyed it, but felt it was sort of a cop-out, which didn't surprise me that much. I had been wondering how Stephenson was going to maintain all of the different aspects of the book that he created- there are a lot of them. I'm most interested to see how the situation with YT's involvement with the Mafia will turn out, because if i remember correctly, Hiro also was involved in the Mafia, although obviously not closely enough to retain the headhonch's dogtags from Vietnam. I'm also interested to see how Da5id ends up, and if there is any solution to his crash. I thought it was a very good twist on Stephenson's part to have it physically incapacitate him as well as completely demolishing his Metaverse aspect.
I felt the explanations about Sumerians and the whole history "lesson" was a bit long-windeded, although i do understand it was somewhat necessary. I don't know how else Stephenson could have gone about explaining all that information, although i feel that if it had been somehow broken up a bit, it would have been easier to take in and retain.
I'm getting more absorbed in this novel than i have, due to the fact that not only a lot of my classes are semi-involved in the same sort of examination of the "evolution" of technology, communication, and writing, but also because of the fact that I personally experienced a situation this weekend at raquette lake that involved no speaking, more than 5 people, in the same room, in the same chatroom- and no actual vocalization. That's an experience I'm sure I'll delve into later. Might be an interesting neovox article. Gotta get on that.