"Reamde", by Neal Stephenson

[mangosteen]

So, I just finished reading all 1,004 pages of "Reamde" by Neal Stephenson.

Comments

[rmd]

trivia: he's already made forays out of the sf genre - he (co-)wrote two books in the 90's that can only be described as technothrillers. (not counting "zodiac", which is somewhere between scifi and technothriller)

and yes, quite a lot of guns, there. and somehow i suspect that the character of peter was designed to snark about a number of stephenson fanboys.

[perspicuity]

perhaps a used copy :)

guns you say?

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[bluepapercup]

As Stephenson rants go, this one was shockingly mild. I was expecting you to excoriate him!

[dreamsewing]

Hunh, that sounds more like a Michael Bay film,was there by any chance a female chracter who was only defined by her arse? Guess I'll take this one of of the Books for pir list.

[mangosteen]

To be completely fair, the characters were entirely fleshed-out and believable, and the main female characters were actually three-dimensional.

The gun porn got a bit much, though.

[42itous]

I read the first three pages and decided I didn't want to read about guns, so I quit.

One of my theater professors taught us a neat rule: if there's a weapon hanging on the wall in the first act, you can bet it will be used to kill someone by the end of the play.

[jason237]

Ah yes, Chekov's Gun.