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“Stephenson has a once-in-a-generation gift: he makes complex ideas clear, and he makes them funny, heartbreaking, and thrilling.”
—Time
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Neal Stephenson is continually rocking the literary world with his brazen and brilliant fictional creations—whether he’s reimagining the past (The Baroque Cycle), inventing the future (Snow Crash), or both (Cryptonomicon). With Reamde, this visionary author whose mind-stretching fiction has been enthusiastically compared to the work of Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Kurt Vonnegut, and David Foster Wallace—not to mention William Gibson and Michael Crichton—once again blazes new ground with a high-stakes thriller that will enthrall his loyal audience, science and science fiction, and espionage fiction fans equally. The breathtaking tale of a wealthy tech entrepreneur caught in the very real crossfire of his own online fantasy war game, Reamde is a new high—and a new world—for the remarkable Neal Stephenson.
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“2 stars = Meh. Just ok.
"To paraphrase Tolstoy, all rich places were alike, but each poor place was poor in its own way."
This was my first Stephenson novel and it was unfortunately a disappointment. It was packed with action but light on character growth and development, which ironically always makes for a boring read for me. It was interesting enough that I completed it to see how it would end, but it was not worth the 1000+ page time investment.
There was some humor that was appreciated, particularly from the dry dialogue by the Russian mobsters. I was looking forward to the MMORPG aspect of the novel, but the game is mostly periphery that is explained enough for a non-gamer to understand. It is definitely not a Ready Player One for adults, which would have been awesome. I have heard that this is not the author’s best work, but it will be a while before I give another one a go.
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First Sentence: Richard kept his head down.
Favorite Quote: Humans needed water or they would die, but dirty water killed as surely as thirst. You had to boil it before you drank it. This culture around tea was a way of tiptoeing along the knife edge between those two ways of dying”About Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the novels Termination Shock, Fall; or, Dodge in Hell, The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (with Nicole Galland), Seveneves, Reamde, Anathem, The System of the World, The Confusion, Quicksilver, Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, Zodiac, and the groundbreaking nonfiction work In the Beginning . . .Was the Command Line. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
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