I thought I had drunk the Stephenson kool-aid years ago, but apparently not. While he's generally idea driven and heavy on info dumps, this is constructed to be character driven and heavy on info dumps. Character driven really doesn't play to his strengths as his characters tend to feel flat. Going ...
I liked this book but I'm not entirely convinced that it wouldn't have been better without the whole jihad plotline. The way it crops up is just too coincidental for me. I really liked the world of T'Rain. But I feel like the whole earth tone vs bright thread got dropped. It just sort of ends with t...
Woof, this started with one premise and ended with another. As usual, I found it easy to get caught up in the story, despite the fact Stephenson can write ten pages to another author's one. He does like to info-dump, but as I don't find it boring--I don't mind. Frankly, I would have loved to learn m...
Years back, ex-pot smuggler and WoW addict Richard Forthrast developed an MMO, T'rain, that took the world by storm. Now, he's a billionaire. At the latest Forthrast family reunion he reflects on the legend (and wiki entry) that has grown up around him, then reconnects with his niece, Zula, and he...
An excellent thriller, with a few caveats:1) This is not a "big idea" book. Don't expect something like Anathem or Cryptonomicon. It's "just" a thriller, but an excellent one at that.2) If you're going to read this book, I suggest you read it in the next six months or so. It contains so many contemp...
Reamde was fun, exciting, and cinematic, filled with epic battle scenes and smart, cool characters. It was a real page turner, I always ended each reading session eager to know what would happen next. Some of this page turning excitement was due to expert control over pacing and tension building. ...
If this had been a mystery, I'd have thrown it at a wall (and given it's enormous size, probably hurt myself in the process). I despise it when a mystery author gives up on logic and relies on coincidence. It's more acceptable Up to about pg. 300, it was going great. I loved the basic premise of ...
I don’t get it. People love this book. Granted, this is the first book of Neal Stephenson’s that I’ve ever read so I don’t have the advantage of knowing what else he’s capable of writing, but Reamde isn’t something I’d expect from a writer with his reputation.Even though there were way too many mo...
So, I used to really, really like Neal Stephenson. I read all of his earlier books (even Zodiac and The Big U). But somewhere along about the Baroque Cycle, I fell out of love with him -- not that he stopped being a good storyteller, but man those books were long and took forever to get anywhere.Any...
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