At the start, Snow crash is very jarring with strange and unexplained jargon and slang from a cyberpunkish future. Terms like 'deliverator', 'kourier' (and palusibility of what they are) don't seem so strange in some time. The plot is a tasty mix of cyberpunk themes(like big corporations, virtual reality, hackers etc.), linguistics, history/mythology and you will remember things from it for a long time!