I would confidently recommend this to anyone looking for something long to read, that will still manage to keep them going even several hundred pages in. It’s incredibly engaging, and forces the reader to think hard about what connections every detail mentioned has to the plot. The novel follows the lives of Richard Forthrast and his niece, Zula Forthrast, who is a refugee from Eritrea. Smuggling backpack loads of high-grade mari. This book is written in a way that gets you attached and interested in every single aspect of the plot, from a hacker in China to a mountain cat in Iowa. Neal Stephenson’s Reamde is a thriller set in contemporary America. Four decades ago, Richard Forthrast, the black sheep of an Iowa family, fled to a wild and lonely mountainous corner of British Columbia to avoid the draft. The fascinating thing is how they all come together in the end, for a huge and action packed finale.

Every character has no idea what they are getting into, and often throughout the seemingly unrelated sub-plots, they are all operating on different levels of information, and from different locations. His latest, Fall or, Dodge in Hell, is another piece of evidence in the anti-Matrix case: a staggering feat of imagination, intelligence and stamina. REAMDE is, like I said in my first update, a story that begins fairly simple but quickly spirals out into a series of events spanning several weeks. How do you write a review for a 1,000 page book full of complex plot lines and complicated characters without spoiling the whole thing? Not sure, but I’ll give it a try.

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