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Reamde

By: Neal Stephenson
Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
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“Stephenson has a once-in-a-generation gift: he makes complex ideas clear, and he makes them funny, heartbreaking, and thrilling.” - Time

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Neal Stephenson is continually rocking the literary world with his brazen and brilliant fictional creations - whether he’s reimagining the past (The Baroque Cycle), inventing the future (Snow Crash), or both (Cryptonomicon). With Reamde, this visionary author whose mind-stretching fiction has been enthusiastically compared to the work of Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Kurt Vonnegut, and David Foster Wallace - not to mention William Gibson and Michael Crichton - once again blazes new ground with a high-stakes thriller that will enthrall his loyal audience, science and science fiction, and espionage fiction fans equally. The breathtaking tale of a wealthy tech entrepreneur caught in the very real crossfire of his own online fantasy war game, Reamde is a new high - and a new world - for the remarkable Neal Stephenson.

©2011 by Neal Stephenson. (P)2011 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved. Adventure Fantasy Fiction Science Fiction Thriller & Suspense Exciting Funny Suspense Espionage Thriller Russia China

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Critic reviews

“Stephenson...delivers a sprawling thriller that shows him in complete control of his story.” (Publishers Weekly)

“Noir futurist Stephenson returns to cyberia with this fast-moving though sprawling techno-thriller...Who’ll prevail? We don’t know till the very end, thanks to Stephenson’s knife-sharp skills as a storyteller. An intriguing yarn—most geeky, and full of satisfying mayhem.” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)

“Sometimes when you’re reading Neal Stephenson, he doesn’t just seem like one of the best novelists writing in English right now; he seems like the

only one.” (Lev Grossman, Time)
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If a Book doesn't grab me by the end of the second ChapterI lose interest. With this Book I struggled through to Chapter Six because I loved "Snow Crash", couldn't put it down, but this...........!?!

Rambling

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I struggled a bit to get into this, as computer games are a foreign world to me, but I was sufficiently intrigued to persist and was very pleased I did. The gaming world is a novel one in which to set a crime thriller but the further I went the more intriguing it got. In the longer run, there was no need to be "a gamer" to get this, as all is explained eventually and the characters are progressively filled out until the reader does indeed come to care what happens to them. It's long enough to be good value but it was never too long to hold the attention. I found the narration good, although it did take a little time to tune in to it.

Persistence very well rewarded

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I’m a big fan of this author and this story did not disappoint. A huge array of characters and a riveting story.
The narrator is mostly excellent though at times his style is a bit stilted and there is a character early on who is meant to have a scottish accent but sounded rather more like a russian! it drove me crazy but without giving too much away, you don’t have to put up with it for long.

Gripping epic

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Not quite up to the standard of Cryptonomicon, but it weaves multiple viewpoints in the story arc in an engaging way. In ten years time, some of the technology described will seem old fashioned (and of course it will be), but it's the usual mix of well researched detail and plausible very-near-future speculation from Stephenson.

It doesn't make the mistake of speculating *too* far into the future; everything described *could* be done now, so coming back to it at a later date, or picking it up in 5 years time may feel slightly nostalgic, but it will dodge sounding dated and inaccurate.

A wide range of likeable and thoroughly unlikeable characters thrown into challenging and increasingly tense situations.

I enjoyed Malcolm Hillgartner's performance; the accents are a bit variable in places - you may pause for a second or so to tune into the character - but all-in-all pretty effortless to listen to, clear, and well paced.

Twisty Tech Thriller

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Since snow crash Neil Stephenson has been one of my favorite authors with Cryptonomicon being, to my mind, his stand out book. While “Read me” isn’t as good as Cryptonomicon it is still well worth a read. I found the opening third slightly confusing, but after this I couldn’t stop listening.

A long book with a very geeky feel, it may not appeal to all, but i loved it.

The narration was quite neutral and did not detract from the book.

Details make the story

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Good characterisation but amount of plot could have fit in half the book and the logical leaps to get to the conclusion are a bit blatant. Otherwise well narrated and written.

Engaging but very long

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WOW. Im only 2 hours in but WOW. The story is good if youre ok with dense world building and lots of dense interesting language but WOW. The narrator CANNOT do a Scottish accent, I mean WOW, it wanders more than a Trump speech. The 'Scottish' character sounds like a KGB agent who learnt English by watching re runs of Father Ted and Crocodile Dundee. WOW!

Accents

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It may be a "techno thriller", but only just -- the technology in question feels mostly like a MacGuffin to motivate a chase around the globe; the possibilities and dangers of technology remain largely unexplored, but while the book fails to inspire or enlighten, it remains entertaining throughout. "It's not a must-read, it's a can-read."
Recommend to anyone who is looking for a lot of book for their credit and who is willing to accept a somewhat run-of-the-mill thriller. Reader is competent.

A whole lot of entertaining nothing

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Worth every one of the 38 hours it took to listen. During my commute, morning and evening. Took roughly 2 months, on and off.

Incredible

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Relistened toi it after a gap of some years, loved the deus ex machina cougar

Loved it

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