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Re:Neal Stephenson Joins Magic Leap by billyhoffman on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @03:37PM (#8759293)
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.

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Re:Neal Stephenson Joins Magic Leap by RandallBrown on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @11:07PM (#8761033)
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.

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Re:Neal Stephenson Joins Magic Leap by devindotcom on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @03:55PM (#8759413)
Seconded. It's really awful. Read Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and Anathem.
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Re:Neal Stephenson Joins Magic Leap by Florin_Andrei on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @05:14PM (#8759924)
The Russians were fun, if a bit cartoonish.
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