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Work detailsReamde by Neal Stephenson
 eichin | May 10, 2013 |  An exciting thriller that spans 6 (or more) countries plus a virtual online world, with Chinese hackers, Islamic terrorists, the Russian mob, British intelligence, an American internet billionaire and his extended well-armed family, and so forth. Not as high concept as most of his other books; this one should be accessible to anyone who likes a good thriller, provided you don't mind geeky explanations of gold farming in online mutliplayer games and other such digressions. (  ) clay.blankenship | Apr 30, 2013 | Maybe a notch or so down from Cryptonomicon. More action scenes, perhaps, but you're left with that feeling that you've been through a whole hell of a lot by the end of the book. And there's actually a bit of book-ended closure, which I was surprised by given Stephenson's usual penchant for abrupt endings. (  ) MattP225 | Apr 27, 2013 | Awful. It actually reminded me a lot of David Wallace in that it started in a field in the midwest (The Pale King) and was way too long (Infinite Jest). The difference is that Wallace is deeply concerned with constructing beautiful sentences. Stephenson just seems to want to beat you at trivia. Trivial. (  ) librarianbryan | Apr 21, 2013 | Loving this so far! Although there are always those moments where I wonder how much distance Stephenson has from his creepy male characters... Still, so fun! UPDATE: For me, this fell apart towards the middle/end, becoming boringly actiony and improbable, but not in a fun way. Maybe because I loved THE DIAMOND AGE so much my standard for Stephenson is really high, but I just kept thinking he could do better. Don't get me wrong: I love a sprawling doorstop with intricate detail about a particular world or job, but I am bored by the violence-as-conflict school of storytelling. I also couldn't get a handle on the politics of this book: libertarian? nice-guy crypto anti-feminist? "telling it like it is"? Ultimate verdict: I found REAMDE gripping while I was reading it but forgettable a few days later. Sad. Hey Neal Stephenson, write something as good as THE DIAMOND AGE again! (  ) anderlawlor | Apr 9, 2013 |
 All of Stephenson's fiction has thrilling moments (and as his novels tend to be big, those moments can go on for many, many pages), but this is the first of his books that is nothing but a thriller, one that will sit comfortably on shelves weighed down by, say, the complete works of Robert Ludlum. Sci-fi geeks flock to the master's wildly complex novels -- but his latest, "Reamde," is maddeningly conventional  REAMDE, Stephenson's latest novel [...] is a book that represents a new kind of equilibrium in Stephenson's literary canon: a book that is simultaneously as baroque as System of the World and as cleanly and crisply finished as Anathem. It is, in other words, a triumph, all 980 pages of it
No descriptions found. When his own high-tech start up turns into a Fortune 500 computer gaming group, Richard Forthrast, the black sheep of an Iowa family who has amassed an illegal fortune, finds the line between fantasy and reality becoming blurred when a virtual war for dominance is triggered.… (more) (summary from another edition) |
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My one problem with the book is that I read it on the kindle... and didn't realize (until I checked after losing most of three solid days to it) that the paperback edition is *1100 pages* and I *really* should have gone out of my way to pace myself. (