Entertainment For Lively Minds
Reamde
Posted by Harold Holt on 3 October 2011 - 11:59am.
It's About:
It's about terrorism, money laundering, russian mobsters, chinese virus writers and MMR video games. It's a sprawling thing, multiple narratives in parallel where each chapter usually jumps you back a few hours to bring you up the fork in the story you just passed. A great read, some challenging stuff, which definitely doesn't pander and always assumes you can keep up. My only quibble would be one or two overly convenient and unlikely coincidences.
Length of read:
Long
Might appeal to people who enjoyed:
Neal Stephenson generally, and his Baroque trilogy/Cryptonomicon in particular;Charles Stross; the Bourne series (it reads like the pace of the movies rather than the Ludlum books)
One thing you've learned:
More than I ever thought I'd want to know about lodging flight plans in and out of China.
Neal Stephenson still needs a good editor, and on Kindle a decent proof reader.









