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		billyhoffman on Dec 16, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Neal Stephenson Joins Magic Leap ugh. Reamde. Reamde starts off with a lot of interesting ideas, and then morphs into quite possibly the worst watered-down, airport-paperback, fourth-rate-Tom-Clancy-triller nonsense I have ever read. Avoid it at all costs. Unbelievable plot and character motives. ick.

RandallBrown on Dec 17, 2014 | [–]

I really liked Reamde. It's a close second to Anathem as far as Neal Stephenson's books go for me.

If you can suspend disbelief at the sheer ridiculousness of the situation, it's pretty awesome.

devindotcom on Dec 16, 2014 | | [–]

Seconded. It's really awful. Read Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and Anathem.

Florin_Andrei on Dec 16, 2014 | [–]

The Russians were fun, if a bit cartoonish.

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