69: Love Conquers All, But So Do Guns

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2011

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Break out your gaming laptop and pass the ammunition: It’s time to discuss Neal Stephenson’s “REAMDE.” Why does the book’s plot take a hard left turn halfway through? Why does Stephenson struggle to write endings—and does he succeed this time? Is this book about family, the victory of the outsider, or blowing things up? (Can’t it be all three?)

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0:00.0	The Incomparable Podcast, number 69, December 2011.
0:15.2	Welcome back to The Incomparable. I am Jason Snell, your host. We are convening another edition
0:20.7	of The Incomparable Book Club.
0:22.9	And yet again, I believe this is our fourth thousand page long book in a row.
0:31.9	Fortunately, our next book is Stephen King's book about the Kennedy assassination and time travel, which is...
0:36.9	It's like 20 pages, right?
0:38.1	Also a thousand pages.
0:40.0	Oh, God, help me.
0:42.0	Anyway, today we are going to talk about Reimdi, which is how you pronounce it.
0:49.2	By the way, we checked.
0:50.3	Neil Stevenson has a video where he calls it Reimdy.
0:53.5	It's Reimdi.
0:54.6	It's Read Me, miss calls it Reimdi. It's Reimdi. It's Read Me misspelled as Reimdy by Chinese hackers.
1:00.1	But we'll get to that.
1:01.6	Neil Stevenson's Reemdy came out in September and we've all read it.
1:08.1	It took us that long.
1:09.2	If you didn't read it, why are you on this podcast?
1:11.5	And if you don't want to know what happens in it, please don't listen to this podcast because
1:15.2	we're going to tell you what happens.
1:16.2	We're going to talk about what happens in the book.
1:19.3	So joining me to talk about what happens in the book, which is the purpose of a book club.
1:24.4	Just getting it out there.
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