Will the bible "Snow Crash" deliver prophecy?

Traffic accidents not withstanding, you are probably right.

Claire, if you have Papa John's over there, give them a try. I've found them to be a decent option when out of town.

Never heard of Papa John's before. I may have to make a trip to liverpool just to check them out lol.

Oh, now I reeeeelly want Pizza!

OK - you've done it!

/me goes to get that pizza out the freezer.

the best pizza is the kind you make at home on little english muffins.

oh they are so cool! Mum used to let us make them to stop us nagging her about when tea was going to be ready lol. i haven't had one in ages!

ROFLMAO!!!!!!

I agree, someone should read those pages to us! I only have an audio recording of some guy reading the book.

i dont have the book

and im not going to buy it just cause of a forums thread.

SO they need to tell me, before i troll them and stuff.

*rawwrr*

My God - this is incredible! Those page numbers are written right on those exact pages, just as predicted.

OK - for a more serious reply, page 14 describes a courier kid on a skateboard who uses a sort of sticky tether to hitch a fast tow ride from the pizza delivery guy. She has backward pre printed notes/taunts she can slap on his rear window so he can read them in the rearview mirror.

Page 65? I dunno. It talks about intellectual property being ripped off and impossible to protect. It also talks about voice altering software. That's an easy one -- all of this is nearly true today.

I'm disinclined to finish the novel right now to find out more of the predictions.

It's supposed to Snow here tonight.........

When you start reading "Snowcrash" - think Video Game extrapolated into RL. A fast racing, chasing video game full of stunts. It may not be the sort of literary genre you like, but in it's genre IMO it is written well.

I could identify with the teenage girl, YT, quite easily - sporty, venturesome youth! But when she took care of a stray dog, I was right there with her.

That's probably a good description,probably why I didn't care for it, not being a gamer. I always preferred "Hard" Science Fiction. A teacher once said to me "The trouble with Hard Science Fiction is that it's Hard."

duh! lol.

It doesn't really sound like my kind of book. Im more into the supernatural vampiry type stuff or the chic lit. Stunt action just isn't a page turner for me. still will have a go at it though.

So it reads like you are watching someone play a video game?







ugh.

Take the films "Videodrome", "Brainstorm" and "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" and mix them together. Then put Bruce Campell in the lead.

Maybe Ill just watch my son play his Wii for an hour instead?

LOL

Have a Pizza while you do so.

K theres a California Pizza Oven place at the mall.

14, yeah stickers and hyper inflation, "it takes hours to get them off…pay trillion of dollars.

65, mentions the 'BigBoard' "It has one routine that patches some of the traps in low memory, for a moment" an attachment that causes some lag?

88, The Rat Thing, bio-mechanical pooch (in RL) "The body is Rottweiler-sized, segmented into overlapping hard plates like a those of a Rhinoceros.

90, More about the Rat Thing

105, Financial corruption in Religious institutions

144, nothing happening here, please move on

165, about a downtown area where young men 15-16 travel through to prove manhood, ie if they can get out alive.

8, The Mafia, "you've got a friend in the Family" billboard and high traction pavements

16, "Her chest glitters like a General's with a hundred little ribbons and medals, except each rectangle is not a ribbon, it is a bar code. A bar code with a ID number that gets her into a different business, highway or FOQNE"

32, this follows page 31

64, BABEL name of a hypercard, virtual mass storage

128, Rapping

256, Virtual Librarian and Kabbalism

512, doesn't exist

Taken from the 28th reprint of Penguin Books (UK)

Thanks Dekka

More like, you are right there in the midst of the action of a video game - I found the plot complicated/convoluted, but at the same time, the characters were developed very well and I found they were believable, even though I found the story line, in places, very hard to believe in.

Unbelievable storylines are fine, that's what Sci Fi is all about. but as you said, I just couldn't grab hold of anything in it. Also in most fiction, I usually am able to latch onto one character, but none in this book spoke to me. Maybe I'll try it again. I'll find a camping chair, and see if I still have a copy packed away somewhere.

I do, I do! I think Stephenson's a fantastically good writer. Literary, even.
And I like Pizza Hut pizza much better than the stringy, greasy stuff made in NYC,
And I think helicopters violate the laws of physics

And I still like Brenda anyway.

Just goes to show you that you don't have to be in step to be in sync.