I struggled at first. In my defence it's the first book of its kind that I've sunk my cerebral teeth into. Initially (for the first 100 pages or so) it was like wading through molasses - slow and exhausting, but when I was able to stop for a moment and take a sip, sweet and stimulating. Once the cha...
This is a funny book to reviewwith lots of good and bad things about it. First the bad: The entire first half of the book is in many ways redundant and can be gotten rid of. That's a really big problem. The last 100 pages are written very well and fast, but the book very slowly reaches that pace...
Usually when I review a book I spend most of the reading time thinking about how I'm going to review it. Anathem was a little different, I feel like there are alot of things to say and none of them have come together to form a cohesive review in my mind, so I'm gonna start at the beginning and try t...
Unfortunately, Anathem is yet another of those critically-acclaimed award-winners that just didn’t work for me. The story takes place in an alternate world with striking similarities to our own. It follows the life of Erasmas, an unsubtly-named member of the Discipline, a secular order that basicall...
ugh... can't bring myself to bring out the fourth star. stephenson is stretching more and more out as he gets older. now I admit i started diamond age at 3 and had to concede, finally, a solid 4, but I'm pretty sure i won't be making the same jump... it's all the fantastic ideas and thought just rea...
Well.To start, I have far less to say than this book has to say about itself. Though I first picked it up in July, and didn't finish it until a concentrated burst this afternoon, as the library simply wouldn't let me keep it anymore, it's a quick read. I only picked it up after I heard about another...
In terms of interest, the plot is little better than decent. Also, the characters are somewhat emotionally flat. The redeeming quality, overwhelmingly, is sheer force of ideas -- in quantity and quality. Anathem exemplifies one of my favorite roles of science fiction as a genre: to play with the pos...
I have been reading this book for 17 days, when you have lived with a single book this long there is inevitably separation pain, now that I have finished it I feel like I just woke up from a long weird dream. I had a lot of trepidation about reading this book, the reviews and comments from fellow sf...
Anathem represents my second encounter with the genius of Neal Stephenson (third, if you count my aborted read of Quicksilver), and I can honestly say that while the reading experience does not get any easier, there is the same sense of satisfaction waiting at the end. More dense, less accessible, a...
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