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Reamde

Neal Stephenson

Released: 2011-09-20

$9.99 0%

2.9 MB

$9.99 0%

2.9 MB

Released: 2011-09-20

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.

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Ratings & Reviews

4.5 of 5 (673 Ratings)

Apple Books: Customer Reviews

2016-07-01

Dreadful (by a Stephenson fan)

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.

2015-02-04

Lee Child meets Ernest Cline...sort of

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.

2014-06-16

Reamde

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.

2014-02-02

A banquet of awesomeness

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.

2014-01-21

Great Ideas advanced by Stale Plot Device

The biggest problem with REAMDE is that it relies on the uninspired (and ubiquitous) Victim-Heroine-Against-Brutal-Men trope to advance the action of this otherwise imaginative cyber-crime/terrorist novel.

2013-07-14

Seriously amazing book

If you liked Cryptonomicon you'll like this. I've been giving people copies of Stephenson's books for year and, sadly, no one ever reads them because the page count freaks them out. My vehement claims that the page count is an asset in this case has never convinced anyone apparently. Too bad. Just read anything Stephenson's ever written.

2013-05-25

Fans should skip this

I love Stephenson - read and loved many of his books. Sorry to say he completely phoned this in. It's not quite a one-star but it is definitely not worth it, and will lower your opinion of a great writer.

This book is badly conceived and filled with plot holes. A few times a random animal comes in and kills/hurts the aggressors at the most vital moment. It then drags on into a highly improbable fight between good old fashioned American folk and "terrorists" in the back woods of America.

Don't waste your time - instead read Cryptonomicon again - will be a much better time investment.

2013-04-10

Taking a deep breath....

This is my first Stephenson book so I have nothing to compare it to as to how sci-fi it is etc, but beyond all of that, it's simply incredible. I guess simply is a bad word because nothing about this book is simple. When I imagine the time something of this scope must have taken it makes my brain hurt. There are so many locations, characters, worlds, races, spy organizations etc etc etc, and yet, somehow, I never felt overwhelmed. Stephenson manages to keep me just enough in the loop and to tie it all up perfectly at the end. I enjoyed every minute of it and can't wait to read more by this author.

2012-10-22

Back down to earth...🌏

...because the earth has become so surreal that there's no need to do sci-fi anymore. Reamde is the novel Stephenson would have written instead of Snowcrash had he the ability to see the future. It has everything cyberpunk had - hackers, virtual worlds, underworld figures operating beneath society's radar - only this time around, it's all perfectly real. This is post-postcyberpunk, the world that we got instead of the world we imagined. And yet, somehow, it's not that far off.

2012-08-03

Reamde is a good Read.

Enjoyed the book; storyline, characters, wilderness, and techno-babble. thanks!

2012-08-03

Ruthlessly paced, intricately plotted.

Reamde is a cannonball shot of a novel that you will be thinking about in the unfortunate hours that you are unable to read it.

2012-07-16

Mystery story not really a sci-fi story

This book was more of a Michael Crichton story than an imaginative story akin to Stepenson's Diamond Age. It is more like Cryptonomicon but straight forward and includes some video game storylines that are very popular (and in my opinion played out) but linear as well. I found the character development to be very very good.

2012-07-04

Great book!!!! Highly recommend

What makes Neal a great writer is his love of characters as much as story. Not that every character has to have a deep back story but the each one has enough to bring them to life and help you see why you want to care.

2012-04-08

Reamde

Excellent! Very entertaining. Lots of non-stop action. Could be a good movie. Stephenson appears to be an expert on many topics. World travel, business, guns, software, psychology, just to name a few.

2012-02-22

Fast paced after slow start

Never having read any other Stephenson books, I thoroughly enjoyed this endeavor. He weaves multiple characters fluidly in diverse geographical locales seamlessly. I highly recommend this book if you enjoy an intense action-filled novel.

2012-02-16

Loved it

So involved and nail biting! I had to put it down because my nerves couldn't take it!

2012-01-07

Multicultural multiplayer joyride

From the ins and outs of design of multiplayer games, to terrorism, to spys and mercenaries from several cultures, Reamde is worth the read. Well done and satisfying.

2012-01-07

Stephenson at his mad-cap best.

Taking a cue (again) from William Gibson, Neal Stephenson has punched out one of the best contemporary thrillers I have ever read.

If you liked Gibson's Bigend trilogy, dig on REAMDE. It's totally different in style, content, and tone, but could easily exist in a world where Belgians run fashion, and modern techology runs wild.

2011-11-30

What a great book!

Neal Stephensen is amazing! He's so much fun to read - always clever ideas that are unique, fabulous characters, free and easy dialogue, and something new for me to learn - including vocabulary! He's a master at creating multiple seemingly unrelated plots and finding a way to tie them together - sometimes from one book to another. I thank him for his literary creations!

2011-11-10

Unfulfilled promise

As a huge fan I was really looking forward to this novel. Seeming to brim with Stephenson's imaginative and thought-provoking settings, I couldn't put this down initially. But about a third of the way through it goes off-track and drops a few notches into a conventional thriller that any of the major beach-read blockbuster authors could have penned.

By the end, I was just rushing through it to get to the extremely predictable conclusion. A superb stage with great characters looking for a more imaginative plot... And the core "wow" concept (the intersection of the virtual/fantasy world with the "real" world) is unforgivably abandoned.

Not a bad novel, but not vintage Stephenson.

2011-11-03

Excellent

Super thriller. Not sci-Fi though.

2011-10-29

Pretty good

I felt a little guilty liking it in parts but was generally entertained throughout.

2011-10-18

A lot of fun!

I expected this book to be good, I am a fan of the author and have read a lot of his work. This is a very present and straight forward novel. More mainstream than anything else he has written and a great entry point for people unfamiliar with Stephenson. I highly recommend it to anyone who likes a good thriller, and especially those who enjoy technology. You won't be disappointed!

2011-10-06

Interesting but not Compelling

A good read. A fun read. An interesting read. Contains the requisite Stephenson prose we have all come to know and love. But in the end this is just another airplane book you read on a flight to somewhere to keep your mind occupied while trapped in a metal cylinder for hours. A very long flight.

2011-10-02

Stephenson delivers again

While missing some of the epic and bewildering scope of cryptonomicon, reamde was all the more ... readable for that reason. Characters were wonderfully developed, and there's plenty of stephenson's trademark nerd tidbits. Dive in.

2011-09-27

Trance

Worth the wait for any Stephenson fan. Similar in pacing and flavor to Cryptonomicon & The Diamond Age. I just finished it and scrolled right back to page 1 to start again.

2011-09-27

Price

I absolutely love me some Neal Stephenson, but $16.99 for an ebook is ridiculous. No thank you.

2011-09-26

I'm sure 16.99 is reasonable

It was just released after all.

2011-09-20

Cryptonomicon Fans - Enjoy!

For all the fans of Cryptonomicon, Reamde will appeal to you...I loved this book! Been reading all night since downloading it at midnight - great read!