I think I read Snow Crash too old. I think I should've read it in my teens tbh, or at least got into it with that as a frame. I think it's a 'young adult' /teenager book and I should reread it as that to be fair to it. But I didn't enjoy. It's all so yeah this guy who is a proxy for me, Neal, is like a bad as hax0000r he's so bad ass, he walks into the room and there's a hush, his katana is so bad ass, he swings his bad ass katana, and the crowd swoons and in unison say 'woah what a bad ass, he's the coolest.' he's me btw, I'm the bad ass, me, Neal 'bad ass' Stephenson.