This book was not quite what I expected from Stephenson, but I really enjoyed it.. More 'thriller with a touch of tech' instead of scifi, at times the writing style reminded me of William Gibson, which is not bad at all.

This was the least 'gimmicky' Stephenson book in awhile... The Baroque Cycle blended major historical figures with fiction, Anathem had the irritating invented language, but Reamde (once you get past the [sic] title) is pretty straight-ahead.

Stephenson's endings often feel a little slapdash, and this one too felt a bit anticlimactic. There were so many characters that bringing resolution to all of their intertwining arcs was bound to be problematic.