Sci-Fi book # 31 Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

I didn't know much about Snow Crash going into it, but I had been looking forward to reading it ever since I bought a cheap used copy at The Last Book Store last year. The story is about Hiro, a computer hacker that also delivers pizzas for the Mafia. It starts out pretty promisingly... the virtual reality Hiro helped create may be threatened by a new virus that can harm both computers and humans and have significant real world consequences. And there are some interesting ideas throughout about how language works, how religions spread and the relationship between man and machine...but somehow it all became a bit too jumbled by the end. The links between plot points were sometimes unclear and all of the information about the Tower of Babel and Sumeria didn't seem to grow organically out of the story and ended up being just a lot of exposition to try and explain what was going on. And the ending seemed pretty abrupt too. Still parts of it were enjoyable and the world Stephenson creates has a lot of character. I'll give it a B.