![]() ![]() Traversing the globe - from an island off the coast of China, to the Philippines to the British Columbian wilderness - they must reunite to stop the Islamic terrorist from doing really bad things on American soil. Three groups of characters with vastly different backgrounds - including a Chinese gamer, a Hungarian computer nerd, a sexy Asian MI6 agent, a Russian gangster, an international Islamic terrorist, and an adopted Eritrean-refugee who is the niece of the impossibly wealthy creator of T'Rain - are thrown together by circumstance, and then literally blown apart in all directions. ![]() ![]() The novel is a thousand-page doorstop about a computer virus called REAMDE that infects players of a World of Warcraft-like video game called T'Rain. Again, it wasn't all terrible, but it was a gigantic relief to be finished. That said, after finishing REAMDE, I put the novel down and breathed the hugest sigh of relief I've let loose since finishing Gravity's Rainbow. While this is the first Stephenson novel I've read - I'd been meaning to read him for awhile because his fans are always raving about his novels, particularly Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon - and while I didn't care for REAMDE, it wasn't enough to put me off him forever. I'd suggest taking a breath, climbing the stairs of your parents' basement, going outside, and doing your light saber exercises. If you're part of the small but vocal "Neal Stephenson can do no wrong" contingent, you may want to turn away. ![]()
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