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Re:We are all nerds: The literary works of Neal Stephenson by lb1lf on Sunday August 28, 2022 @02:04PM (#32630484)
That sounds great; I have had Anathem on my bookshelf for years after life got in the way just after starting it; I had planned to finally read it this fall. Your observation makes me look forward to it even more, thank you!
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Re:We are all nerds: The literary works of Neal Stephenson by dwater on Sunday August 28, 2022 @02:24PM (#32630663)
I like about 2/3 of Stephenson’s novels and Anathem took some work for me to get into. It really gets moving several hundred pages in and then the last 1/3 makes it all worth it.
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Re:We are all nerds: The literary works of Neal Stephenson by DIVx0 on Sunday August 28, 2022 @02:56PM (#32630959)
It took me a few tries to get past the first 1/3rd of Anathem but once I did, it became one of my all time favorite books. Stephenson paints a rich rich world which I have often thought about outside of the major plot points of the book.
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Re:We are all nerds: The literary works of Neal Stephenson by ghaff on Sunday August 28, 2022 @03:58PM (#32631521)
It's one of those books where you have no idea what's going on for the first chunk of the book--and probably don't really realize what's fully going on until close to the end. Reading a book in at least partial confusion can be taxing and hard to hold interest. (Though I certainly liked Anathem quite a bit overall.)
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