Good read

Stephenson is one of our finest storytellers and Reamde is a perfect example of why.

Outstanding read. Great storyteller.

i really enjoy stephenson’s writing. great characters and rich, detailed storytelling.

I’ve been a huge fan of Stephenson, and passages of books come back to me over and over. But Reamde. It’s engaging while reading it, and the characters are well drawn, and... it doesn’t go anywhere ultimately. There’s no bigger picture. It’s just... stuff.

I’m so glad I stumbled across this hidden gem. Sprawling and enthralling, classic Stephenson

I hated this. It's full of already hackneyed post-9/11 stereotypes. The villain is 2-D. The plot is bol**x. Am a huge fan of pretty much everything this author has done, but here he's just dialing it in. Feels like he was just writing this one for cash. Shame. It'll be a whole before I read another of his books.

I love raw, action-filled, recycled-plotted books like Lee Child writes in his Jack Reacher series. And Ernest Cline's Ready Player One novel is one of the best I've ever read. Reamde, after the first 100 pages promised to be both, so I was set for the long haul. Stephenson did an outstanding job of keeping me interested throughout the book through the use of constant context-switching and wondering what will become of all of the fairly well-developed characters. However, the author gets a little too descriptive and wordy for my tastes, which became a distraction as I just wanted to find out how all this craziness would resolve, and not get bogged down in the different shades of green present in a distant harbor somewhere. Overall a great book, just be prepared to tune out for entire pages at a time if you're like me and can't stay focused for pages at a time on imagery with no steps toward story or character development.

It's the insightful commentary about the small things that makes Neal Stephenson's writing so engaging. His perceptions about ordinary experiences give even the most improbable scenarios a convincing aspect that make me want more. I love the feeling of wanting the narrative to keep going even when the last page is turned. I was sorry to have Reamde end.

Mr. Stephenson is simply brilliant at constructing enormously complex, sprawling stories with intricate and ingenious plots, sub-plots and sub-sub-plots that come together in amazing ways. Reamde is another such epic, and if you (like me) loved Cryptonimicon and the Baroque Cycle and Snow Crash you will be (like me) thrilled with his book.