I don't really know what people mean when they use that term, but if you tell me what you understand by it, I'll try to tell you whether the book matches it.
Vigilantibus non dormientibus jura subveniunt.
—Nous disons en allemand : le guerre, le mort, le lune, alors que 'soleil' et 'amour' sont du sexe féminin : la soleil, la amour. La vie est neutre.
—La vie ? Neutre ? C'est très joli, et surtout très logique.
—Nous disons en allemand : le guerre, le mort, le lune, alors que 'soleil' et 'amour' sont du sexe féminin : la soleil, la amour. La vie est neutre.
—La vie ? Neutre ? C'est très joli, et surtout très logique.
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson - discuss
- 11/04/2010 07:59:35 AM
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I enjoyed it very much.
- 11/04/2010 11:51:23 AM
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Great fun to read, full of awesome ideas. Does to linguistics what Dan Brown did to history, but hey
- 13/04/2010 11:22:41 PM
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He nailed Second Life, though. *NM*
- 14/04/2010 01:40:06 AM
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I guess so. And it probably won't be too long before we have gargoyles walking around. *NM*
- 14/04/2010 08:46:57 AM
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and google earth is modeled after the "earth" program from the book... *NM*
- 14/04/2010 04:42:52 PM
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it is cyberpunk right?
- 16/04/2010 06:35:57 PM
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If you mean "Is he pushing a political agenda?", absolutely not.
- 18/04/2010 04:27:47 PM
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I may have to put it back on to be read list then
- 18/04/2010 07:34:57 PM
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What's your definition of "cyberpunk"?
- 18/04/2010 08:07:02 PM
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not having read much cyberpunk it isn't a well defined definition
- 19/04/2010 06:42:16 PM
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Theme-wise it's fairly close to what you describe, only not boring.
- 19/04/2010 08:02:16 PM
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I feel there's definitely some anti-corporationism in there, but it's wildly exaggerated. *NM*
- 19/04/2010 07:46:21 PM
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