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Maxim

Iamgmm@bookwyrm.social

Joined 1 year, 7 months ago

Software PM, bridge teacher, board game geek. Interested in stock markets and rational thinking.

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2025 Reading Goal

62% complete! Maxim has read 18 of 29 books.

Michael Flynn: Eifelheim (2006)

In 1349, one small town in Germany disappeared and has never been resettled. Tom, a …

Captivating and very meticulous

This sci-fi is as hard as nails. You can't call the plot unusual — an alien ship crashes on Earth — but you'll learn more about medieval Germany and theoretical physics than you'd do in an average college class. Exceptionally detailed, true to facts, and very well written.

Neal Stephenson: Reamde (2011, William Morrow)

Reamde is a speculative fiction novel by Neal Stephenson, published in 2011. The story, set …

Unexpected

Expectations: a thoughtful, magnificent mind-blowing world similar to those in "Snowcrash", "The Diamond age", "Cryptonomicon", or "Anathem".

Reality: a scenario for a Guy Ritchie criminal action movie. Russian mafia, Chinese hackers, and a manhunting puma assaulting islamic terrorists.

Reamde is still a fine piece of prose, just don't expect Platonic philosophy in this one.