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If you can get past the absolute slog of a beginning, Anathem is amazing.
by roughly 2y ago
If you can get past the absolute slog of a beginning, Anathem is amazing.
- xarope 2y agoyes, give it a try and try to get past the first few chapters. The first time I read it, the world building almost put me to sleep. Somehow I decided to give it another try on a long flight, and this time I grok'd the world building, and thoroughly enjoyed it all the way through to the end.
- 0xEF 2y agoAnthem is my favorite Stephenson book, by far. My copy is the only book I own with a broken binding because I've read it too many times. I don't think that one gets enough attention, especially from a world building and technical perspective.