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A review by bukephalas
Reamde by Neal Stephenson
2.0
Stephenson takes a lot of liberties here. I find it hard to believe that two people randomly plucked from China have such fluent English (or all the other people picked from non-English-speaking countries)...it's a little silly to make such an assumption.
That said, this book is good fun and a pretty quick read for the length, and quite enjoyable. I am always interested in Stephenson's ideas on currency and cryptography and wish this book had had a bit more of those. Should have stuck with the hackers more and the terrorists less (speaking of which, cliche anyone?!). And please (spoiler alert!), not everyone has to get romantically involved at the end, that was lame.
That said, this book is good fun and a pretty quick read for the length, and quite enjoyable. I am always interested in Stephenson's ideas on currency and cryptography and wish this book had had a bit more of those. Should have stuck with the hackers more and the terrorists less (speaking of which, cliche anyone?!). And please (spoiler alert!), not everyone has to get romantically involved at the end, that was lame.