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Reamde: A Novel by Neal Stephenson
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Reamde: A Novel (edition 2011)

by Neal Stephenson (Author), Lisa Stokes (Designer), James Iacobelli (Cover designer)

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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.
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Title:Reamde: A Novel
Authors:Neal Stephenson (Author)
Other authors:Lisa Stokes (Designer), James Iacobelli (Cover designer)
Info:William Morrow & Company (2011), Hardcover, 1044 pages
Collections:Your library, Currently reading
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Tags:Reading, Speculative Fiction, Adventure, Canada, China, Computer Games, Computer Virus, Cyberpunk, Draft Dodgers, Drug Smuggling, Economics, Gold Farming, Gunfights, Jihad, Kidnapping, Survivalists, Virtual Reality, Games, Gaming, Hackers, Idaho, MMORPG, Money Laundering, Seattle, Terrorism, Terrorists, Thriller, 21st Century, American Fiction, Novel, Fiction, Hardcover

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Reamde by Neal Stephenson

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    Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay (themulhern)
    themulhern: There has been some talk about Stephenson's female characters and some assertion that he is anti-feminist. My feeling is that he is, perhaps, writing his female characters as "bad feminists" in the sense that Roxane Gay uses that term in this collection of essays.… (more)
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    The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs (themulhern)
    themulhern: Somewhat unorthodox family is sundered by bad guys and in multiple concurrent narratives re-assembles itself, meanwhile finding new allies and new enemies. The chief female character emerges as a character with agency.
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Didn't take me as long as I feared. Not my favorite Stephenson and not one I'll reread, but not bad. ( )
  caedocyon | Feb 23, 2024 |
Conflicted about this one. I came into this only having read [b:Snow Crash|830|Snow Crash|Neal Stephenson|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1477624625s/830.jpg|493634] by Neal previously, and a long time ago at that. He has a digressive style of providing oodles of backstory in a convoluted way only to arrive, a few pages later, at the actual point. I think I loved this in the beginning of the book, when we are meeting characters and want to get to know them; it felt like a real understanding of the characters and a unique and fun way of showing who they were and why they do what they do. However, especially at the end it started to bog down the pacing. At a point in a thriller I think I want to just move along and reach a conclusion, but we still get exposition late in the game and it becomes overwhelming. This is despite having so much backstory, the characters still end up following the plot lines in a slightly contrived way, and it isn't clear to me at least why certain pairings or actions are taken except to ensure that everyone is where they needs to be for the book to conclude.

That said, the central sequences were brilliant and I enjoyed it mostly because of them. The twists there were great. I wish they had extended through to the end. ( )
  Zedseayou | Jan 30, 2024 |
An enjoyable mix of high-tech thriller elements, well woven together. ( )
  Treebeard_404 | Jan 23, 2024 |
An exciting thriller that quickly grabbed me, pulling me into a world of MMORPGs, hackers, organized crime, espionage, and international terrorism. Thought the final confrontation dragged on a little long and it strained my disbelief a little how much patience the bad guys had with the female protagonist, but overall I loved this book. ( )
  yaj70 | Jan 22, 2024 |
As with many Neal Stephenson books, I picked this up quite a while ago and then put it down after the slow start failed to grab my interest. I finally went back to it in audio-book form, and once I got past the boring part, I did start getting into it (about 10% of the way through the book) and the momentum carried me through to the end. ( )
  stardustwisdom | Dec 31, 2023 |
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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.
added by dcozy | editThe Japan Times, David Cozy (Nov 27, 2011)
 
"Like Stephenson's most critically acclaimed novel, Cryptonomicon, Reamde combines meticulous observation of the stranger socioeconomic effects wrought by technology with rousing fusillades of adventure."
added by bookfitz | editThe Guardian, Miller Laura (Oct 7, 2011)
 
Sci-fi geeks flock to the master's wildly complex novels -- but his latest, "Reamde," is maddeningly conventional
added by bertilak | editSalon, Andrew Leonard (Sep 19, 2011)
 
"Stephenson’s control of these multifarious plotlines is remarkable, as is his evocation of settings as disparate as a 21st-century boomtown in southern China, a remote island in the Philippines, a survivalist compound in Idaho and Wal-Mart."
 
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
added by r.orrison | editBoing Boing, Cory Doctorow (Sep 14, 2011)
 

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Author nameRoleType of authorWork?Status
Neal Stephensonprimary authorall editionscalculated
Gräbener-Müller, JulianeTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Hillgartner, MalcolmNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Iacobelli, JamesCover designersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Stingl, NikolausTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Richard kept his head down.  Not all those cow pies were frozen, and the ones that were could turn an ankle.
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"Fate has given us a totally awesome foe." -Qian Yuxia
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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.

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Four decades ago Richard Forthrast, the black sheep of his Iowa-based family, fled to a wild and mountainous corner of British Columbia to avoid the draft. Quickly realizing that he could make a lot of fast cash carrying backpack loads of high-grade marijuana across the border into Northern Idaho he began to amass an enormous and illegal fortune. Living an affluent but lonely and monotonous life in B.C., Richard became addicted to the online fantasy game World of Warcraft and like many serious players of the game he also fell into the habit of purchasing viral gold pieces and other desirables from Chinese gold farmers—young men who make a living playing the game and accumulating virtual weapons and armor that can be sold to American and European buyers who have more money than time. Luckily for Richard, it was the perfect opportunity to launder his aging hundred dollar bills and begin a new business venture to further expand his fortune.

Now the head of a major computer gaming group called Corporation 9592 with its own super-successful online fantasy game, T’Rain, Forthrast is caught in the center of a global thriller and a virtual war for dominance that is accidentally triggered by a young gold farmer.
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A fast-paced thriller
Hackers, mobsters, terrorists
Done Stephenson-style

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