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That was part of the payoff, though. You're confused at first, wondering wtf is up with the vocabularly people are using, it all starts to make sense about 3/4
by MagicWishMonkey 11y ago
That was part of the payoff, though. You're confused at first, wondering wtf is up with the vocabularly people are using, it all starts to make sense about 3/4 of the way through the book.
Damn, I need to read that one again. It's been too long.
- unoti 11y agoAnd when you read it again, you might find that it's still too long! I kid, I kid. I ended up loving Anathem too, although I seriously struggled to get going.
- IndianAstronaut 11y agoThe new vocabulary was tough. It was a difficult thing to keep a track of through the whole book.
- ghaff 11y agoIt is and, as I recall, Stephenson said as much in a foreword or afterword. Most of the book is an exercise in only partly understanding what's really going on or even the frame of reference you should be applying. It was well done and I enjoyed the book in the end but it definitely had a certain bar to clear in order to get into it. (In general, I find Stephenson's recent books could be tightened up and I didn't really like Reamde; it was a page-turner but suffered from coincidences driving plot.)