>I just usually avoid recommending Crypto, due to its sheer size and density. Good point. And you can hook someone on Snow Crash by reading them the opening b

>I just usually avoid recommending Crypto, due to its sheer size and density. Good point. And you can hook someone on Snow Crash by reading them the opening bit about the Deliverator. >What did you think of Anathem? I love it. It pulls in hard science, philosophy of science, epistemology, geometry, geek love, sociology...wonderful. >but pretty much agree with the XKCD comic I really didn't have any trouble with the vocabulary. There was a lot of it, but it was introduced gradually, and most of it was from European roots. And I don't consider it gratuitous; it was a big part of setting the mood of the book.