Reamde - Neal Stephenson

Reamde

By Neal Stephenson

  • Release Date: 2011-09-20
  • Genre: Adventure Sci-Fi
4.5 Score: 4.5 (From 864 Ratings)
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Description

“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.

Reviews

  • Fun and engaging

    5
    By DZtwinMama
    Good read

  • Another fantastic story

    5
    By d..ecay
    Stephenson is one of our finest storytellers and Reamde is a perfect example of why.

  • Readme

    5
    By jhhouse
    Outstanding read. Great storyteller.

  • such a rich engaging story!

    5
    By dangyaddy
    i really enjoy stephenson’s writing. great characters and rich, detailed storytelling.

  • All that work...

    3
    By Captain Marsupial
    I’ve been a huge fan of Stephenson, and passages of books come back to me over and over. But Reamde. It’s engaging while reading it, and the characters are well drawn, and... it doesn’t go anywhere ultimately. There’s no bigger picture. It’s just... stuff.

  • Pleasant surprise

    5
    By NoahRosenrosen
    I’m so glad I stumbled across this hidden gem. Sprawling and enthralling, classic Stephenson

  • Dreadful (by a Stephenson fan)

    1
    By NervousFishdown II
    I hated this. It's full of already hackneyed post-9/11 stereotypes. The villain is 2-D. The plot is bol**x. Am a huge fan of pretty much everything this author has done, but here he's just dialing it in. Feels like he was just writing this one for cash. Shame. It'll be a whole before I read another of his books.

  • Lee Child meets Ernest Cline...sort of

    3
    By DaveHelms
    I love raw, action-filled, recycled-plotted books like Lee Child writes in his Jack Reacher series. And Ernest Cline's Ready Player One novel is one of the best I've ever read. Reamde, after the first 100 pages promised to be both, so I was set for the long haul. Stephenson did an outstanding job of keeping me interested throughout the book through the use of constant context-switching and wondering what will become of all of the fairly well-developed characters. However, the author gets a little too descriptive and wordy for my tastes, which became a distraction as I just wanted to find out how all this craziness would resolve, and not get bogged down in the different shades of green present in a distant harbor somewhere. Overall a great book, just be prepared to tune out for entire pages at a time if you're like me and can't stay focused for pages at a time on imagery with no steps toward story or character development.

  • Reamde

    5
    By Metawave
    It's the insightful commentary about the small things that makes Neal Stephenson's writing so engaging. His perceptions about ordinary experiences give even the most improbable scenarios a convincing aspect that make me want more. I love the feeling of wanting the narrative to keep going even when the last page is turned. I was sorry to have Reamde end.

  • A banquet of awesomeness

    5
    By Springhaven 844
    Mr. Stephenson is simply brilliant at constructing enormously complex, sprawling stories with intricate and ingenious plots, sub-plots and sub-sub-plots that come together in amazing ways. Reamde is another such epic, and if you (like me) loved Cryptonimicon and the Baroque Cycle and Snow Crash you will be (like me) thrilled with his book.

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