Jan
6
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
“Hiro scans it briefly to see if any of his friends are in there, but it’s mostly parasites and has-beens. Most of the people Hiro knows are will-bes or wannabes.”
I know I’m late to the party, but wow am I loving this book. The passage above and “condensing fact from the vapor of nuance” to describe reading facial expressions are just two of my favorite snippets of writing so far (I’m only 70 pages in). Not only that, but the social and technological insights are top notch. I can already see why @fredwilson recommends this book to funded companies.
