Snow Crash

By: Neal Stephenson

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 17 hrs and 3 mins

Publisher's summary

Only once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparison - a writer so original he redefines the way we look at the world. Neal Stephenson is such a writer and Snow Crash is such a novel, weaving virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and just about everything in between with a cool, hip cybersensibility to bring us the gigathriller of the information age.

In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo's CosaNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he's a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that's striking down hackers everywhere, he races along the neon-lit streets on a search-and-destroy mission for the shadowy virtual villain threatening to bring about Infocalypse. Snow Crash is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous...you'll recognize it immediately.

©1992 Neal Stephenson (P)2001 Audible, Inc.

Critic reviews

"Brilliantly realized...Stephenson turns out to be an engaging guide to an onrushing tomorrow." (The New York Times Book Review)
"Fast-forward free-style mall mythology for the 21st century." (William Gibson)

audio quality is poor.

the story and performance are great, highly recommend the book. however, the audio sounds like it was recorded through a tin-can until you get to a section where they re-recorded some audio.

Great Story, Bad Audio Production

The story is as great as ever.

The audio production is atrocious. The superfluous sound effects are incredibly off-putting. They yank me out of the story immersion every single time.

excellent narration

the narrator did a great job starting consistent between characters. a real gangster performance doing sushi Kay's rap.

the production is rough

great story and great performance. the audio is overall poor, some harsh s sound .

extremely weird and great

It took me a minute to get into this one, the premises weird, the characters are weird, some weird stuff happens, and it is brilliant.

stay till the end, the ideas expressed in this book are a lot of fun especially around language

Super good!

The story is well written and the story line is great, the voice actor did really well also it is Very well done.

Interesting and Exciting Near Future Adventure.

Definitely worth a listen, exciting romp of an adventure. As others have said, the audio quality is sub-par, but not so bad as to make it unlistenable.

Now to address that one scene some have labeled as “rape”. While under some modern Western laws it would be considered “statutory rape”, and under other Western laws it would be perfectly legal (underage marriage to an older person), I have to point out that it was not a forcible sexual assault. It was consensual. The people taking offense are both missing the reality in the story, as well as applying a recent and not at all universal morality to a situation where it doesn’t apply. Don’t let this offense some have chosen to feel ruin your interest.

terrible quality and production values,

this is it a good book, but the audio is absolutely terrible. between chapters are pauses and there's what I think is supposed to be static snow on a TV screen, and then ends with a short whine which I think is the sound of a TV powering down. it's just really annoying. The quality overall is not very good either, it sounds like it was recorded from a recording playing over a loudspeaker.

the narrator's use of accents is also pretty problematic these days. when Japanese characters are speaking, it's really stereotypical. Like "Me so horny", that bad.

I wish there was a better version of the audiobook.

Entertaining but should be a Script

Wanted to be a movie and still could be a movie. Liked the characters and the setting but plot was thin.

cyberpunk generic

it just hit to many cliche cyberpunk themes. it tries, but never connects on any front.