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I read Snow Crash a couple years ago and came out with a similar opinion... although I think the flaws in the book outweighed the good. What it did do is get me looking for cyberpunk type novels. Turns out that these days cyberpunk seems to have integrated itself into mainstream Sci-Fi and shows up in a lot of the literature of the genre... so it's not hard to find.
You might try Tad Williams "Otherland" series, definitely some cyberpunk currents there, with a signature Tad Williams story. Complex, deep plot, multidimensional characters, varied and intricately imagined settings... LONG (which I like but some may see as a negative).
For an even more gritty series (again with very strong cyberpunk underpinnings, although not as extreme as Snow Crash), check out Richard Morgan's "Altered Carbon" and "Broken Angels". Both books much better all around than Snow Crash.
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