For those of you out there who liked this book: why? I have

>>8660306
It's pathetic, reddit-tier nonsense, on par with Ready Player One.

>>8660306
Yes, both Snow Crash and Neuromancer are trash tier novels.

>>8660306
I agree fucking terrible, and In hindsight I should have figured that out from the blurb mentioning a Japanese hacker who runs around with a katana. Though the worse parts didn't even involve him, it was the edgy 15 year old who kept a spike in her vagina in case she got raped what? Also hard to keep track of what was happening in the Meta and what was happening in the real, really convoluted ending I thought.

The only bits I even slightly enjoyed were the references to ancient Mesopotamian cultures and trying to tie that in, but when in conjunction to modern religion 'All religion is a lie' talk it just felt edgy.

It's sort of the literary equivalent of a self-aware B-movie.

>>8660306

It's fun.

>>8660306
Read it when I was dumber. Liked it because it was like a super cheesy action movie, with some interesting mesopotamian references thrown in. If you expect a stupid, non-serious book, it delivers on that.

The things I liked were Mesopotamian virus thing and the parts of the setting that managed to be cool despite of being pants-on-head retarded. Yeah, the characters are in-your-face silly and the plot is clumsy, but for a certain kind of sci-fi reader (can hear you say "FUCKING PLEBS!!1") one cool idea goes a long way to excuse shitty writing. Did you read any other Stephenson's novels? Did you like them?