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30 Days of Books - Day 10
Aug. 13th, 2010 07:38 pm
Day 10 – A book you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. It was my first cyberpunk book, and I wasn't too sure about all the high-tech babble in it. Up until that time, I'd been mostly a horror & fantasy reader. I stayed away from hard-core sci-fi because, honestly, Isaac Asimov bores me to tears. That and I can't do the math or understand anything beyond basic physics. The only above-basic physics thing I fully grasp is the slingshot maneuver (aka, the 'Wile E. Coyote on a Rocket' maneuver).
I read Snow Crash mainly because![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
spyral_weaver73 suggested it to me. "How can you not like a book where the main character is named Hiro Protagonist?" I read it through the first time for the sheer humor - I mean, c'mon... Hiro Protagonist? A bad guy with the words 'Poor Impulse Control' branded on his forehead? Traffic surfing pizza delivery? Then I read it again for the virtual reality world surrounding the characters. The implications of that universe were staggering. They still are - and we're getting closer to living our lives purely online every day. Cloud computing is not a new concept, and I'm not sure if I'm looking forward to it or if it terrifies me. It's amazing to me that I've grasped more about the cloud idea through books like Snow Crash and Mona Lisa Overdrive than I got out of five years of school.
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Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. It was my first cyberpunk book, and I wasn't too sure about all the high-tech babble in it. Up until that time, I'd been mostly a horror & fantasy reader. I stayed away from hard-core sci-fi because, honestly, Isaac Asimov bores me to tears. That and I can't do the math or understand anything beyond basic physics. The only above-basic physics thing I fully grasp is the slingshot maneuver (aka, the 'Wile E. Coyote on a Rocket' maneuver).
I read Snow Crash mainly because
spyral_weaver73 suggested it to me. "How can you not like a book where the main character is named Hiro Protagonist?" I read it through the first time for the sheer humor - I mean, c'mon... Hiro Protagonist? A bad guy with the words 'Poor Impulse Control' branded on his forehead? Traffic surfing pizza delivery? Then I read it again for the virtual reality world surrounding the characters. The implications of that universe were staggering. They still are - and we're getting closer to living our lives purely online every day. Cloud computing is not a new concept, and I'm not sure if I'm looking forward to it or if it terrifies me. It's amazing to me that I've grasped more about the cloud idea through books like Snow Crash and Mona Lisa Overdrive than I got out of five years of school. ( The rest of the questions )
