This is my favorite book of all. I don't know if I want to see the movie since it will destroy all the visual imagery I've already constructed in my head.
Originally shared by Keith Wilson
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Oh. That should be amazing. Hopefully Snow Crash gets a chance at some point.
ReplyDelete"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."
ReplyDeletei have reservations as well, I'd hate to see it mangled.
John Holmes Younger folk don't even get that line, as a digital TV usually gives that bright-blue color rather than the grey static of analog....
ReplyDeleteChadwick Jones You couldn't get enough of Snow Crash into a reasonable length movie. You can't even cut out the sub-plots, like the true nature of those guard whatever-they-are, because it suddenly becomes a crucial plot point 400 pages later when one suddenly has a vague memory and zooms in at several hundred miles an hour. Without the backstory of that sub-plot, it looks too much like a deus ex machina.....
ReplyDeleteJohn Holmes That is one of the few opening sentences I've committed to memory. The imagery Gibson paints in that book is stunning.
ReplyDeleteIt struck me quite deeply when I first read it - I was in a run down hotel in Vancouver, looking out over the water on an overcast day.
ReplyDeleteI love the Great Dismal.
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