{"id":1697,"date":"2011-10-13T15:21:31","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T15:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1697"},"modified":"2011-10-13T15:21:31","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T15:21:31","slug":"book-log-reamde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1697","title":{"rendered":"Book Log &#8211; REAMDE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>REAMDE<\/em> by Neal Stephenson<\/p>\n<p>I mentioned this before, but <em>REAMDE<\/em> is reminiscent of Stephenson&#8217;s <em>Zodiac<\/em>, which was the first of his novels I read.\u00a0 I enjoyed <em>Zodiac<\/em>, but I didn&#8217;t go out of my way to find other Stephenson works at the time.\u00a0 I judged it a good eco-thriller, which are not typically my fare.<\/p>\n<p><em>REAMDE<\/em> is a good thriller.\u00a0 Stephenson writes extremely well, and has some good characters and, well, thrilling moments.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s not what I love Stephenson for.<\/p>\n<p>So, it&#8217;s a very good book, but it&#8217;s just an okay Stephenson book.<\/p>\n<p>The action spans from the terrain of an online Worlds of Warcraft style game to China to the wilds of the Canadian\/US border.\u00a0 The storyline is at once outlandish and plausible, a testament to Stephenson&#8217;s adept plotting.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully he&#8217;s gotten this one out of his system, though, and we can get back to the <em>really<\/em> good stuff.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REAMDE by Neal Stephenson I mentioned this before, but REAMDE is reminiscent of Stephenson&#8217;s Zodiac, which was the first of his novels I read.\u00a0 I enjoyed Zodiac, but I didn&#8217;t go out of my way to find other Stephenson works &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1697\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[481],"tags":[466,50],"class_list":["post-1697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","tag-book-log-2011","tag-stephenson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1698,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions\/1698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}