Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson--Science fiction, 470 pages
This is a great book, it's hard to believe that it came out eighteen years ago. Other than references to videotapes, most of the tech-stuff is still beyond me. This was the first book I read by Stephenson, back in 2000 or so, and it is interesting in re-reading it now to see that starting here and through his other books (the ones I've read anyway) that he is consistent in his enthusiasm for cramming huge amounts of information into his stories. It's as if he wants to tell us so many things that he makes up these interesting stories so we will sit still and take it all in. I loved the beginning of the book, meeting Hiro and Y. T., the end seems to come on rather suddenly, as if Stephenson realized he had to wrap it up soon.--Patrick