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Reamde (2011) (edit title/settings)

by Neal Stephenson (Author) (edit contributors)

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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. Smuggling backpack loads of high-grade marijuana across the border into Northern Idaho, he quickly amassed an enormous and illegal... read more

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  • “What he wasn't so good at was manipulating the internal states of other humans, getting them to see things his way, do things for him. His baseline attitude toward other humans was that they could all just go fuck themselves and that he was not going to expend any effort whatsoever getting them to change the way they thought. This was probably rooted in a belief that had been inculcated to him from the get-go: that there was an objective reality, which all people worth talking to could observe and understand, and that there was no point in arguing about anything that could be so observed and so understood. As long as you made a point of hanging out exclusively with people who had the wit to see and to understand that objective reality, you didn't have to waste a lot of time talking.”
    Narrator, in describing Richard Forthrast
  • “The young ones shuffled to a stop as their ironic sensibilities, which served them in lieu of souls, were jammed by a signal of overwhelming power.”
  • “Walmart was not so much a starship as an interdimensional portal to every other Walmart in the known universe.”
  • “Reader, they bought his IP.”
  • “It is a classic Dilbert situation where the technical objectives are being set by management who are technically clueless and driven by these, I don't know, inscrutable motives.”
    Peter
  • “Each death meant that a particular set of ideas and perceptions and reactions were gone from the world, apparently forever, and served as a reminder to Richard that one day his ideas and perceptions and reactions would be gone too.”
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  • “De gustibus non est disputandum.”
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  • The unifying principle behind all recombinant cuisine seemed to be indifference, if not outright hostility, to the use of anything that a coastal foodie would define as an ingredient.
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  • Richard’s ex-girlfriends were long gone, but their voices followed him all the time and spoke to him, like Muses or Furies. It was like having seven superegos arranged in a firing squad before a single beleaguered id, making sure he didn’t enjoy that last cigarette.
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  • The GPS unit became almost equally obstreperous, though, over Richard’s unauthorized route change, until they finally passed over some invisible cybernetic watershed between two possible ways of getting to their destination, and it changed its fickle little mind and began calmly telling him which way to proceed as if this had been its idea all along.
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  • The recombinant food thing was a declaration of mental bankruptcy in the complexity of modern material culture.
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  • The opening screen of T’Rain was a frank rip-off of what you saw when you booted up Google Earth. Richard felt no guilt about this, since he had heard that Google Earth, in turn, was based on an idea from some old science-fiction novel.
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  • Waging war on his enemies had been Sokolov’s habit and his professsion for a long time, but being chivalrous to everyone else was simply a basic tenet of having your shit together as a human and as a man.
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  • People who had job titles and business cards could say easily where they worked and what they did for a living, but those who worked for themselves, doing things of a complicated nature, learned over time that it was not worth the trouble of supplying an explanation if its only purpose was to make small talk. Better to just go directly to airline travel.
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  • “As hire As, and Bs hire Cs,” the point being that as long as you continued to recruit only the very best people, they would attract others, but as soon as you let your standards slip, the second-raters would begin to seine up third-raters to act as their minions and advance their agendas.
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  • Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI): The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is an agency of the United States Department of Justice that serves as both a federal criminal investigative body and an internal intelligence agency (counterintelligence). The FBI has investigative jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal crime.<2> Its motto is a backronym of FBI, "Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity".The FBI's headquarters, the J. Edgar Hoover Building, is located in Washington, D.C. Fifty-six field offices are located in major cities throughout the United States, and there are over 400 resident agencies in smaller cities and towns across the country. More than 50 international offices called "legal attachés" are in U.S. embassies and consulates general worldwide.
  • MI6: International intelligence organization of the British government
  • Da G Shou: In game gang of Chinese gold farmers
  • Russian Mafia: Organized crime in Russia.

First Sentence edit see section history

Richard kept his head down.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Cover
Title Page

Part I: Nine Dragons
-- Day 0
-- Day 1
-- Day 2
-- Day 3
-- Day 4
-- Day 5

Part II: American Falls
-- Day 6
-- Day 7
-- Day 8
-- Day 9
-- Day 10
-- Day 11
-- Day 12
-- Day 13
-- Day 14
-- Day 15
-- Day 16
-- Day 17
-- Day 18
-- Day 19
-- Day 20
-- Day 21

Acknowledgements
About the Author
Praise
Other Works
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher

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  • T'Rain: A MMORPG that is similar to World of Warcraft, the main difference being that the the geology of the world is modeled using actual scientific principles.

Series & Lists edit see section history

This book is in Kirkus Reviews: Best Fiction of 2011. (authoritative list)
This book is in Amazon.com Best Books of 2011. (authoritative list)
This is book 8 of 10 in Amazon.com Best Books of September (2011). (authoritative list)

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Neal Stephenson (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: William Morrow
Country: U.S.A.
Publication Date: September 20, 2011
ISBN: 0061977969
Page Count: 1056

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Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Adults

Profane language. Sexual situations. Violence. Implied drug use. Attempted sexual violence.

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