I really enjoyed Snow Crash, even though I started reading it a little warily due to my last run in with cyberpunk - Neuromancer. I enjoyed the characters much more in this book and the irritatingly flawed (from a real programmer's perspective) view of hacking was a bit much I suspended my belief enough to greatly enjoy this book. Snow Crash had a lot of action and also a lot of peeks at society and linguistics which I thoroughly enjoyed. I wouldn't say this book is perfect, there were definitely parts that annoyed me, I will read the sequel.