Snow Crash

Witty and exciting cyber-punk. I can't believe I missed this guy back in the 1990s. This was reminiscent of William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy with its hipster-youth outsider characters, division of haves and have-nots, corporate-controlled dystopia, and the combining of the spiritual with technology.

There are tons of funny one-liners; Snow Crash was worth it just for this alone. I also fell for the colorful characters I could root for even if at times they were impossibly attractive, savvy, and quick.

A few things in the plot and some motivations were slightly unresolved and fuzzy but overall I loved reading this.