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so far this is a highly enjoyable slog. i forced myself to reread the first chapter, as the learning curve for the language and the world stephenson has created has extraordinarily long and hard. my enjoyment of this book has been cubed (at least) in doing this.i am well into the fourth chapter now ...
I really enjoyed it, even though some of the theoretical discussions were over my little head. I found the characters highly, highly entertaining. For a 900+ page book, it was surprisingly difficult to put down.
Wonderful premise, great setup with deeply realistic characters who live in a world where scientists and scholars all live in a monkish world of isolation from the rest of society, and are free to study and analyze. They are the holders of intellectual truth, in a world overrun with consumerism and ...
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