So, if you are a Brit, then do be prepared to find your eyes popping at the narrator’s pantomime take on British accents. Buy this, download and cancel all plans for a day or two.
But it’s Neal Stephenson so I don’t care. Sure, there are the usual bits of slightly baggy editing, which will catch the ear of anyone inclined to spot inadvertently repeated words written when the author was obviously on a roll and he has a tin ear for British dialogue (no Brit ever says, “trailhead”). As with all his other books on Audible (I hugely recommend the Baroque Cycle), I found myself going about my life with headphones permanently plugged in whenever I wasn't in the shower or fast asleep. If you love Neal Stephenson's work this won't disappoint and if you've never read or heard any of it before then dive on in Reamde is a massive, entertaining romp. Stephenson on top form / narrator can't do accents 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. 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 #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). “Stephenson has a once-in-a-generation gift: he makes complex ideas clear, and he makes them funny, heartbreaking, and thrilling.” - Time
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