• Hardcover
• 1044
• Reamde by Neal Stephenson
• Neal Stephenson
• English
• 02 February 2018
• 9780061977961

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Free read ½ Reamde by Neal Stephenson µ PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook Free read · PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook ò Neal Stephenson Free read Reamde by Neal Stephenson Mers 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 buyersFor 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. 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

Free read ½ Reamde by Neal Stephenson µ PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook Free read · PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook ò Neal Stephenson Free read Reamde by Neal Stephenson 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 centerIn 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 imaginati. Remind me never to read reviews written by my most ardent fansThis book is great but it appears TeamStephenson was expecting the opening of the Ark of the fucking CovenantIf 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 thisIt s fun And funny And damned goodIf you want something else put this down walk away and go on witcha bad self Never you worry there s bound to be a new Patterson out by TuesdayThat is all

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Free read ½ Reamde by Neal Stephenson µ PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook Free read · PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook ò Neal Stephenson Free read Reamde by Neal Stephenson 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 uickly 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 ga. 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 eitherStephenson hasn t made it easy on his fans since Cryptonomicon in 1999 with it and every book since being about 27000 pages long while spanning the late 1600s in Europe to World War II to another world complete with it s own languages and customs and each book was also crammed with detailed information about topics like finance and code breaking When I saw that this was going to be a modern day thriller that had something to do with a MMORPG I thought Neal was finally taking pity on us poor readers of only average intelligence and attention span and giving us an easier bookWrongAt over 1000 pages with a plot that races around the world and includes multiple characters in wildly different circumstances Reamde is not a thriller you just breeze through but like most things Stephenson I found that the effort I put into it was rewarded with a wild and uniue story and top notch writingRichard Forthrast fled the US for Canada to avoid the draft during Vietnam and once the war was over he made a small fortune as a marijuana smuggler Years later Richard put his pot money into the development of a MMORPG called T Rain and is now enormously wealthy and successful as the game is one of the most popular of its type around the worldRichard s relationship with his family in Iowa is strained but he loves his niece Zula An African refugee Zula was adopted by Richard s brother and grew up as an Iowa farm girl and recently graduated college with a computer degree Richard offers her a job and is thrilled that he ll get to spend time with her However hackers have put a virus called Reamde in the T Rain game and this inadvertently begins a chain of events with deadly conseuencesThe story roams from the US to the Isle of Man to Canada and China as well as various other locales and a huge cast of characters is involved Russian gangsters fantasy novelists British spies on line gamers a Hungarian money launderer Chinese hackers American survivalist nut jobs and Islamic terrorists all get mixed up in the plot and the book culminates in an epic way with 100 tense pages that stressed me out and left me needing a nap afterwardsWhile Stephenson still never met an info dump he didn t like he keeps the focus here mainly on the characters without taking long detours to explore concepts like he has in some of his other books although he does spend a fair amount of time explaining the nature of the T Rain game while working in some pretty funny observations about the fantasy genre and gaming Fans of his earlier work who grumble about the length and pace of his later stuff will still find plenty to bitch about here and there are some dead sub plots that could be trimmed with no damage done to the overall storyBut to me that s what makes a Neal Stephenson book special Yes he probably could have written a 300 to 400 page book that got most of the same plot into it but without the backstories and the time spent in the mind of each character as they think through their respective situations it d be just another book with a bunch of people running around with guns and laptops Part of the charm for me is Stephenson s uirky way of telling a story and he s delivered another great book here