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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I really need to read Snow Crash again. I gave my copy away years ago when I was moving and got rid of a lot of my stuff, but now I'm middle-aged enough that I've been rebuilding my bookshelf

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It's pretty ok aside from that one part where the adult fucks a 15 year old.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Shit, I'd completely forgotten about that…

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Legal in some countries I believe

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"it's technically legal" is perhaps the flimsiest defense. Doesn't address if it's a good idea or not.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I have absolutely no idea what the book is about, care to fill me in?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Snow Crash is a near future tech dystopia where corporations run most of the world, and people hang out in the meta verse - a virtual space. It's where assholes like Facebook got the idea from, despite snow crash being a dystopia.

The main plot is about some sort of sickness that's afflicting tech people. There's a lot more detail I don't remember.

A supporting character is a cool 15 year old that for some reason the author sexualizes and has a sex scene with her. He could've just made her like 20 but nope.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

A supporting character is a cool 15 year old that for some reason the author sexualizes and has a sex scene with her. He could've just made her like 20 but nope.

I didn't know Michael Bay wrote a book!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

A supporting character is a cool 15 year old that for some reason the author sexualizes and has a sex scene with her. He could’ve just made her like 20 but nope.

If they didn't have some kind of message about it being wrong then it is probably the author's fetish.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Gotcha. Does the relationship exist to build character or demonstrate that even the protagonist's morals have slipped along with the community's eithics?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I honestly don't remember the details very clearly. It ends badly for the guy in a weird way. I think it was mostly played straight as "this 15 year old girl totally wants to fuck this older man". I think she may have been kidnapped too?

It's been a while. I don't remember taking anything from that plot beat other than ick.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

"Legal" and "moral" are two different things you know