Neal Stephenson, Anathem

Bookblogging big books by Neal Stephenson is where I came in, nearly five years ago. I'm not finding this one much easier to discuss coherently, particularly because there doesn't seem to be much I can say even about the nature of the setting without getting deeper into spoiler territory than I like. It was an enormously entertaining read, full of ideas, with the sort of sneakily brilliant incluing that provided some wonderful "Aha" moments. The ideas and setting were mostly more interesting than the people, but I don't mind that, and at least some of the more technical digressions were shunted off into appendices that I must admit I mostly didn't bother with.

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Would probably have made good travel reading, and I've recommended it as such to a colleague, but I read it in hardcover.