Snow Crash

Snow Crash is a story about the world's best hacker (computer hacker), Hiro Protagonist. Hiro, after getting fired from his pizza delivery job within the first few pages, is introduced to a 'drug' in a cyberspace community called snow crash. Of coarse, there can't be a drug in cyberspace, you can't inject, snort, or swallow it to have it's effects. What it does instead, is show you a long string of binary code, you know, computer language. This particular string of binary code basically 'crashes' your brain, attacking the occipital lobe in your head. Now, just for clarifying purposes, this is bad. It sends you to the hospital, and they can't fix you. Snow crash is also available in drug form in the real world, but this time it acts like a drug. Without falling victim himself, Hiro, along with his smart-ass helper, YT, have to stop the snow crash from claiming anyone else. Combining Sumerian myths, some awesome sword fights (Hiro wields two of them), not to mention some amazing new technology, Neal Stephenson creates a reality that takes well know things now, and blows them up to mean and become so different, that it is easy to see. This book has some insanely awesome fights, both in the virtual-reality of the Metaverse, and in reality. This story can get confusing, we can't see into Hiro's head when he makes all of his connections between myth and reality, but it all gets explained toward the end. Challenging, entertaining, action packed, with a sprinkle of lust, this book is a must read for anyone, no matter what you're into!