I loved #Seveneves and #Reamde. I enjoyed but was less excited by #Cryptonomicon.
Can anyone recommend another #NealStephenson book for me to read?

Getting on a plane and flying somewhere to do a job: What could be more normal than that?
But Ivanov had not shared with him any information about how they would actually get into the country. Now men nominally under Sokolov’s control had done murder in the U.S. & were in China illegally, & at the mercy of whatever local gangsters Ivanov had cut a deal with. Tho to be fair, those people were at Ivanov’s mercy as well…they didn’t understand that Ivanov was crazy.
#Reamde

Every so often Ivanov would blink & look about him w/surprised, almost childlike expression, as though a sane part of his mind had come awake, regained control of the body & found itself in a predicament concocted by the part of Ivanov that was completely out of his fucking mind.
#Reamde

ZULA: Thanks & my next question—
C-PLUS: It’s 1 of a large block of addresses allocated to an ISP in ~Shyamen~
Z: Come again?
[Corvallis spelled it & she wrote it on Sokolov’s flesh:
XIAMEN]
C+: Port in SE China @ mouth of the 9Dragons R., pop 2.5m, generic for a Chinese city.
[Ivanov and Sokolov looked at each other as only Russians could look at each other when the Chinese came into it.]
#Reamde

#Reamde
Richard [Dodge] noticed he had email flagged as spam. Re: some Chinese characters. He deleted it without looking. But something about it was nagging at him. He didn’t read Chinese, but he'd been learning about this place called Xiamen & he had grown accustomed to seeing one Chinese character that stood out because of its simplicity:
门
It was half of the two-character symbol for “Xiamen”
厦门
He fancied 门 was in that subject line…
The whole📩was 3 .jpgs of brown paper towels w/handwriting.

[PETER]
Sokolov put the odds at 100% that Peter would do something stupid & cause enormous trouble―because he believed he was clever & thought only of himself. It would be safer to take him out & shoot him now, but the shock would probably disturb the equilibrium of Zula.
#Reamde

Xiamen:
Sokolov was taken aback when he scanned the front of the building to find it cluttered w/young Chinese men crawling around on it like spiders.
But :60 earlier his greatest concern in the world had been a cabal of hackers.
These must be them.
He understood & approved of their decision 2 avoid the stairwells. Would be easy/smart 2 follow them down, since they knew the terrain. In unfamiliar territory, it was wise to pattern one's movements after the locals'.
#Reamde

Neal completed the following thought from #Reamde in #FallOrDodgeInHell with his #Ameristan chapters.
"But Dodge was convinced they were on the threshold between Midwest & West: On one side of the crick you're raking leaves while listening to Big Ten football, but on the other side, you were plucking arrows out of your hat"

#Reamde
Dodge announced “I’m going into town" which meant Walmart. He got into the huge Mercury, heard doors opening behind him, saw Peter & Zula sliding into the backseat. The passenger door swung open & in came another 20something.
The young funsters had much to say about the Grand Marquis; they had got the joke of it, decided that Richard was hip. The girl in the passenger seat said she'd never before been in “a car like this,” meaning, apparently, a sedan. Richard felt far beyond merely old.

#Reamde
Part II: American Falls
Day 6
But Richard had already gone the cop route and found it not nearly as productive as driving around with a sledgehammer and retaining the services of men with #oxyacetylene torches.

Day 8
One way to be strong was to be knowledgeable. In so many areas, it was not possible to be knowledgeable without getting a PhD & a postdoc. Guns and hunting provided an out for men who wanted to be know-it-alls w/out getting up to speed on quantum mechanics or oncology.

The #NealStephenson book #Reamde really has some interesting chapter lengths.

#book #audiobook

UNCLE MENG: The American national security apparatus is very large and unfathomably complex. It has many departments and subunits that, one supposes, would not survive a top-to-bottom overhaul...Those who are good at playing the political game are drawn inward to Washington. Those who are not end up sitting in hotel #lobbies in places like Manila, waiting for people like you.
#Reamde

Since her immigration status had become impossible to make sense of, Olivia was met, at the top of the jetway, by a man in a uniform and a man in a suit. She had always read of people being “whisked through” certain formalities, but this was the first time she had ever been personally whisked and she had to admit that it had its charms. Particularly when you were hungover and bleeding.
#Reamde #NealStephenson

The girl in the passenger seat said she had never before been in “a car like this,” meaning, apparently, a sedan. Richard felt far beyond merely old.
#Reamde

I've been meaning to do this for at least ten years, but I'm finally giving Dwarf Fortress a legit try. Why now? I just reread _Reamde_ by Neal Stephenson, which features an incredibly rich and complex fictional MMO called "T'Rain". I suspect that Dwarf Fortress is the only extant game that captures at least some of the aspects of T'Rain that I find so intriguing. _Reamde_ is one of my least favorite Neal Stephenson novels, FWIW. #dwarffortress #nealstephenson #reamde

“I’m sorry I touched your doll,” Olivia said. “I had no idea how important Thorakks was to you.”
Silence, as none of the men knew how to cope with her tactical use of the word “doll.”
“Wow, how do you rate having a doll made of your personal character?”
“It’s called an action figure.”
#Reamde

So, instead I'm going to be reading his other trilogy #TheMongoliad so by the time I get to #Reamde I'll have forgotten that I've read it out of order.

#NealStephenson

So, I've finished reading #FallOrDodgeInHell by #NealStephenson and enjoyed reading it, but moving on to what to read next I've discovered that I should perhaps have read #Reamde or #ReadMe first. Oops!;*