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But Anathem is his best work!

• finnh 9y ago
  It's funny how personal all of these preferences are. I, personally, thought that "Diamond Age" was tepid, and "Zodiac" pretty stupid (but an early work, so forgiveable), but I've pretty well loved everything else that Stephenson wrote by himself. On the shared-author side of things, the DODO book is terrible - dropped after about 2 pages - and the Mongoliad stuff looks tripe too. Anathem and Seveneves are among my favorites. And I really liked the entire Baroque Cycle! (after consciously avoiding it for years).
  • aeorgnoieang 9y ago
    > the Mongoliad stuff looks tripe too It's not like Stephenson's other works but I found it to be perfectly competent historical-ish fiction.
• Florin_Andrei 9y ago
  If the thing that most deeply interests you is Knowledge (with capital initial, and understood in the broadest sense possible), then Anathem is like catnip for your brain. It's the book that shows how deeply the author understands what motivates knowledge geeks - be they active in science, technology, or any other field. Reading it, nearly at every page I was like "wow, this guy gets it!"