Another of my favorite books, Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. A badass cyberpunk classic. And it includes one of the greatest character descriptions ever, of the enormous Aleutian warrior Raven, who has a nuclear bomb linked to his heartbeat, so that no one dares kill him. This description i'd from one of the main characters, the amusingly named Hiro Protagonist: "Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad. Hiro used to feel this way, too, but then he ran into Raven. In a way, this was liberating. He no longer has to worry about being the baddest motherfucker in the world. The position is taken." #nealstephenson #snowcrash #hiroprotagonist #poorimpulsecontrol