Sunday, January 4, 2009

Anathem

anathem_400
Let me make this clear. This is a long book.

Weighing in at just under one thousand pages and probably a pound and a half this book takes some concerted effort to get through. This effort is even more difficult given that Neal Stephenson has decided that the book takes place on a parallel earth complete with it's own lexicon. Keeping this straight in your head is non-trivial.

Aside from that, it's brilliant. Stephenson is probably one of the greatest authors writing today. I just wish he didn't know it so much and keep it down to Snow Crash levels.


http://www.amazon.com/Anathem-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0061474096/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231185316&sr=8-1
Posted by at
Labels:

Popular Posts

  • Contact Addresses Regarding FTAA
    ...These measures, based on the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) give far too much power to publishers, at the expense of individu...
  • Japanese Dragon Mythology Lives On
    The concept of dragons was probably brought to Japan around 2,000 years ago, along with the technology for paddy agriculture. Their images h...
  • Got A Wii
        Finally went out and picked up a Nintendo Wii. My god the thing is fun. Ridiculously, ludicrously fun. Hiyat and I had to tear ourselves...
  • Optical Cryptography
    His system, he said, starts with a laser that sends part of its beam into photo detectors which produce electrical signal that feed back to ...
  • More Terror Attacks to Come
    ...why was this given the file name of skyfall?... Certain information, while not specific as to target, gives the government reason to beli...
  • Canada, Mexico Discuss Problem Neighbour
    The challenge of having the United States as a neighbour was one of the topics discussed Tuesday during a meeting with Mexican President Vic...
  • Putting In A Wireless Network
    When it comes to buying equipment, think g, not b. New 802.11g hardware is nearly five times faster than 802.11b gear, and it will interoper...
  • Satori?
    Here's my (edited) journal entry for this event dated 12/01/98: Wow. I just sessioned and started reading "The Tao of Physics"...
  • Your new IT budget: $10
    Someone that gets it. Service-oriented software, when done correctly in a platform-agnostic way can be flexible, cheap, and can motivate m...
  • The Epic Of Gilgamesh
    This edition provides a prose rendering of The Epic of Gilgamesh, the cycle of poems preserved on clay tablets surviving from ancient Mesopo...

Like us on Facebook