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SNOW CRASH SNOW CRASH SNOW CRASH. Freaking loved this book. If you take only 1 book away from my suggestions it's Snow Crash. https://www.amazon.com/Snow-Crash-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0553380958/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1467723357&sr=8-1&keywords=snow+crash
I balked at recommending another one of Neal Stephenson's books yesterday because it swings widely from your father's usual reading list. However, the more I think about it the more I feel that he might enjoy this one, too.
It is difficult for me to explain, but while this book is pure fiction it carries so much of the real world, so much of the possible, and so much of the crazily likely, that it feels like you are reading a stylized version of an American history that has not actually happened yet. A whiff of future past/future come.
As such, this would be a great one for deep winter reading, when your father is ready for a break from real history: Snow Crash
Have you read Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson? It's a SciFi novel but the narrative is heavily based upon the Babel narrative and Sumer language. It'd be a very fun read for someone interested in the topic (obviously the facts are bent a little bit). No question, just think you'd enjoy it!
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
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Blurb: >In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo’s CosoNostra 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.
Snow Crash is hard to pigeonhole. It's a hilarious pastiche of gritty, 'badass' cyberpunk tropes stretched to absurdity. Yet at the same time it's alarmingly cerebral; per Wikipedia, "it covers history, linguistics, anthropology, religion, computer science, cryptography, memetics and philosophy."
Stephenson originally conceived Snow Crash as a graphic novel, and its flamboyantly wacky characters and smart-assed sense of humor point to that. His writing retains a great deal of visceral immediacy.
But it's not afraid to take a few chapters off for infodumps on ancient Sumerian mythology, or spin Biblical legends like the Tower of Babel and the Christian Pentecost into acts of memetic warfare. Snow Crash boasts an impressive legacy in the nerd-sphere: it introduced digital avatar into common circulation, influenced the development of virtual reality programs, and predicted Google's business model years in advance. The idea behind Google Earth was pretty much lifted wholesale from this book.
Also, Raven. Biggest BAMF in science fiction. And he's running against a katana-wielding, death-racing hacker genius named Hiro Protagonist.
oh noooo that's the wrong one
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Read the book Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. That might help clear things up.
I prefer this book... Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash
Snowcrash by Neil Stephenson is like Ready Player One, but better.
Snow Crash! Keywords: ninja, cyberpunk, hackers, augmented reality, linguistics, religion, malignant memes, corporate-run America
Also, Petersburg, by Bely. Ulysses + Metamorphosis + House of Leaves?
Plus, it provides backstory for one of the best post-cyberpunk novels in existence, Snow Crash.
For those details, read Snowcrash, Hiro Protagonist is the prototype of a professional pizza courier: delivers pizza, saves the world.
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