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Re:An Interview with Neal Stephenson by clavalle on Friday June 19, 2015 @01:30PM (#9746346)
Anathem is seen as his seminal work? Huh. It is, by far, my least favorite of his books.

The Baroque Cycle is fantastic and I just finished Seveneves which is really good as well.

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Re:An Interview with Neal Stephenson by EdwardCoffin on Friday June 19, 2015 @02:29PM (#9746701)
It's a very divisive book, people seem to love it or hate it. I'm a long time Stephenson fan, have read everything he wrote multiple times (excepting Seveneves for the moment), and Anathem is my most favourite of his works.
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Re:An Interview with Neal Stephenson by clavalle on Friday June 19, 2015 @03:22PM (#9747042)
Maybe it was the monk aspect but it felt very much like Eco's In the Name of the Rose -- another book that everyone seems to love but that just didn't reach me for some reason.
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