Instruct: Classify an Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: A wonderful fictional look at the future of virtual worlds

I never did like any of William Gibson's work... "Neuromancer"felt like what it was: a description of fictional technologywritten by someone who didn't know much about the technologyitself. But "Snow Crash" is different; from the first few pages,it's obvious Neal Stephenson understands his subject matter well. Sure,there are hokey parts, like a motorcycle race in cyberspace (whynot just move to a different location?), but then there arebits which are brilliant. This book is the Bible of peoplebuilding virtual world technology, and deservedly so. If youwork in the computer industry, consider this a must-read. Besides,how can you not love a book in which the central character'sname is "Hiro Protagonist?"