Loved Anathem both for the language and for the ideas in it. Rationalist monasticism has such a weird draw for me, despite being something I'll never do. If yo

Loved Anathem both for the language and for the ideas in it. Rationalist monasticism has such a weird draw for me, despite being something I'll never do. If you like books with their own language, Hannu Rajaniemi's Jean le Flambeur trilogy does it more and better than anything else I've read (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7562764-the-quantum-thief https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7562764-the-quantum-thie...). It actually makes me question my interaction with regular language, since there's so many words that you can barely grasp in there... but I wasn't super bothered and thought I understood it sort of ok. But I doubt I could really explain them if pressed too, they just sort of felt well defined based on context that I accumulated. It made me think that my brain just doesn't go very in depth with words and is pleased with a shallow contextual understanding of what they mean. Sort of like the protagonist(such as he is, more like primary victim) of Blindsight by Peter Watts(he's a science communicator that can sort of get the shape of concepts at a shallow level, but never really understands them).