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Four decades ago, Richard Forthrast, the black sheep of an Iowa family, fled to a wild and lonely mountainous corner of British Columbia to avoid the draft Smuggling backpack loads of high grade marijuana across the border into Northern Idaho, he quickly amassed an enormous and illegal fortune With plenty of time and money to burn, he became addicted to an online fantasy game in which opposing factions battle for power and treasure in a vast cyber realm Like many serious gamers, he began routinely purchasing virtual gold pieces and other desirables from Chinese gold farmers young professional players in Asia who accumulated virtual weapons and armor to sell to busy American and European buyers.For Richard, the game was the perfect opportunity to launder his aging hundred dollar bills and begin his own high tech start up a venture that has morphed into a Fortune 500 computer gaming group, Corporation 9592, with its own super successful online role playing game, T Rain But the line between fantasy and reality becomes dangerously blurred when a young gold farmer accidently triggers a virtual war for dominance and Richard is caught at the center.In this edgy, 21st century tale, Neal Stephenson, one of the most ambitious and prophetic writers of our time, returns to the terrain of his cyberpunk masterpieces Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon, leading readers through the looking glass and into the dark heart of imagination. Free Download [ Reamde ] By [ Neal Stephenson ] – kino-fada.fr Me la la la I m sure this will be edifying and weird.Book Yes this will be a book about math and philosophy and like, historical dudes J K actually I am like 14 Die Hards all squished together Me SHut up, I...Damn, but this book exhausted me It wasn t just having to hold up it s 127 lbs of bulk while trying to read that wore me out either.Stephenson hasn t made it easy on his fans since Cryptonomicon in 1999 with it and every book since being about 27,000 pages long while spanning the late 1600s in Europe to World War II to another world complete...It s important for writers to recognize their strengths With Reamde, it s clear that Neal Stephenson has embraced his the infodump Reamde operates in two gears infodump and action, which makes for a potent combination This fusion works because Stephenson has written a thriller At first, I was surprised, but then I realized that The Baroque Cycle was also a thriller, just one set in an unusual period for the genre Regardless, the infodump and the plot are what the thriller s all about.Wit It s important for writers to recognize their strengths With Reamde, it s clear that Neal Stephenson has embraced his the infodump Reamde operates in two gears infodump and action, which makes for a potent combination This fusion works because Stephenson has written a thriller At first, I was surprised, but then I realized that The Baroque Cycle was also a thriller, just one set in an unusual period for the genre Regardless, the infodump and the plot are what the thriller s all about.With Reamde, Stephenson returns to contemporary America, discussing things like the setting of wind shield wipers on cars in Seattle, bears roaming the Rockies, and Walmart However, it doesn t take long just 300 1000 pages for him to get restless with America Before we know it, his hero s niece, Zula, is kidnapped and flown to China, where we are given infodumps related to Xiamen s architecture, ...The fact that this book came out 2 days before I take a 12 hour flight to china is proof that god loves me and wants me to be happy.I know, I know When Stephenson writes really smart, I get annoyed while I force myself to finish the book Quicksilver When he writes a sometimes action packed crime novel full of terrorists and international espionage and virtual worlds Reamde , I get stuck near page 100 or 200 and allow myself to be talked into pushing onward, and start regretting it around page 700, and feel annoyed when I finally finish Here s the thing I like a fun crime novel I read all the Stieg Larsson books I I know, I know When Stephenson writes really smart, I get annoyed while I force myself to finish the book Quicksilver When he writes a sometimes action packed crime novel full of terrorists and international espionage and virtual worlds Reamde , I get stuck near page 100 or 200...Remind me never to read reviews written by my most ardent fans This book is great, but it appears TeamStephenson was expecting the opening of the Ark of the fucking Covenant.If you want a smart, contemporary, geeky, international action thriller written by someone who just spent 10 years writing an epic about the connections between the tech of the 17th century and the tech of the 21st in longhand, on, like, parchment, with a fountain pen, the showboating bastard then read this.It s fun And Remind me never to read reviews written by my m...I thought, when I started reading this book, that Stephenson had turned in a classic Great American Novel By that I mean that the introduction to the main character although actually this is a seriously ensemble piece, so it s probably better to think of him as the spine character the events in the book could not take place without him, even when as much of the time he s out of the room and has no knowledge of what s going on is a perfect, serious statement of a particular moment of Ame I thought, whe...I love Neil Stephenson most of the time , and I loved this book most of the time When He s good he s brilliant, but when he s bad he s mind numbingly dull This is probably his most commercial mainstream book yet It screams please make me into to a Hollywood action movie, or big budget miniseries For my taste it screams this too loudly.The best parts of the novel are about the Chinese hacking and Gold Farming scene, the REAMDE virus all classic slick Stephenson Once we are back in Ameri I love Neil Stephenson most of the time , and I loved this book most of the time When He s good he s brilliant, but when he s bad he s mind numbingly dull This is probably his most commercial mainstream book yet It screams please make me into to a Hollywood action movie, or big budget miniseries For my taste it screams this too loudly.The best parts of the novel are about the Chinese hacking and Gold ...I took the week off between Christmas and New Years and decided the perfect book to end the year with was the new woolly MAMMOTH sized Neal Stephenson book Because we were traveling down to the in laws house, a 12 hour trip to the ship channel in Texas, I checked out a library copy With this size of book it is easy to break the spine while reading it and this is a book that actually forces the reader to abuse it to actually read the book In retrospect, though I was glad I didn t have to tortu I took the week off between Christmas and New Years and decided the perfect book to end the year with was the new woolly MAMMOTH sized Neal Stephenson book Because we were traveling down to the in laws house, a 12 hour trip to the ship channel in Texas, I checked out a library copy With this size of book it is easy to break the spine while reading it and this is a book that actually forces the reader to abuse it to actually read the book I...Birth and death, Chet said The poles of human existence We re like meridians, all beginning and all ending in the same place We spread out from the beginning and go our separate ways, over seas and mountains and islands and deserts, each telling our own story, as different as they could possibly be But in the end we all converge and our ends are as much the same as our beginnings Neal Stephenson has taken the notion of a multi player, on line video game as the basis for an action novel Birth and death, Chet said The poles of human existence We re like meridians, all beginning and all ending in the same place We spread out from the beginning and go our separate ways, over seas and mountains and islands and deserts, each telling our own story, as different as they could possibly be But in the end we all converge and our ends are as much the same as our beginnings Neal Stephenson has taken the notion of a multi player, on line video game as the basis for an action novel and has raised it to the next level The characters in his story each have dangers and goals and must make use of available resources and allies, while avoiding or killing obstructions or enemies Unlike their in game counterparts, the novel s characters only get one life and must struggle to hang onto it against an assortment of unpleasantries, including Russian gangsters, storms at sea, massive urban explosions, petty criminals, predators of the furry, four foot...

Reamde
  • English
  • 03 October 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 1044 pages
  • 0061977969
  • Neal Stephenson
  • Reamde