Espressosaurus 17 hours ago

If you read Snow Crash before the age of 25 it's revelatory.

If you read it after 25 it's laughably on-the-nose.

In highschool it was the greatest book I ever read.

Some books require the reader to be in a particular place in their lives.

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  • mjevans 8 hours ago

    I was lucky enough to have it as part of my college literature course. I had a choice of Greek classics or SciFi and, though I'm missing a TON of Greek classic context these days I do not regret reading ANY of the scifi books! IMO it's a pity I couldn't take both!

    There's a lot of content in the book that reads differently years later. It's extremely easy to criticize outside of the situations present in the book.

    Fiction is a good a place to consider alternate worlds, situations outside of the norm, and people with circumstances you'll never (or hope to never) encounter yourself. That makes it a great place to refine morals and reach a deeper understanding of why things might be good or bad.

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anton-c 19 hours ago

I mean idk when you read it, but like the author said I've seen this language be absorbed so I can't take it in as fresh innovative stuff. I was born after the novel came out so obviously was decades old when I read it.

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  • JKCalhoun 18 hours ago

    I did read both when they came out (in paperback anyway). But I know what you mean. Friends who had not read The Lord of the Rings but saw the films can be excused for thinking the story was "derivative".

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