I've been recommended "Fall; or, Dodge in Hell" and was looking for some thoughts on Neal Stephenson, the author. You guys seem to be pretty on point with these things, so I figured this was a good place to ask.
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Everyone here is wrong. Snowcrash is an abomination so horrible, I didn't bother reading anything else by him. It was ten years late to the cyberpunk party. It brought nothing new and shit all over ideas and scenarios done better by other authors. It had a couple potentially neat ideas, but the man can't write well enough to do them justice.
Here's Snowcrash in a sentence: the main character is named Hiro Protagonist, but he doesn't advance the plot or solve the mystery in any way. A girl does offscreen. Get it?!?
Neuromancer is superior in every way and is one of the tightest novels ever written. Read that instead. Or pick up Gibson's short story collection and read Johnny Nmemonic for the ten page version.
The most interesting part of snowcrash was essentially the college lecture on Sumerian language embedded in the book. Everything else was reddit-tier cyberpunk aesthetic with no substance