It fits a pattern of great books that overdo some sort of theoretical exposition. I think I skimmed or skipped a good chunk of The language stuff in snow crash

It fits a pattern of great books that overdo some sort of theoretical exposition. I think I skimmed or skipped a good chunk of The language stuff in snow crash (actually I may have read it all I can't remember, but I thought it went on a bit) The conspiracy stuff in Foucault's pendulum The Talmud stuff in Unsong I enjoyed all of these a lot though, especially snow crash and unsong