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BruceR — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:05:05 +0000

As others have noted, Anathem certainly isn’t a “casual read”. It takes some work and not a small amount of patience (I think it took me about a week to get through the first 200 pages, and 2 days for the last 700). Having said that, I have found it to be one of the best books I’ve read in the last couple of years. In fact, once I had read through it the first time, I immediately spent 2 days rereading it. There’s a lot of subtlety that doesn’t come through on the first reading (and I didn’t “cheat” by referring to the dictionary in the appendices the first time through). It certainly won’t satisfy everyone (unlike “Snow crash”, which gets more relevant every time I read it – it’ll soon have to be reclassifed as non-fiction), but I highly recommend it.

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FraaFletcher — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:28:38 +0000

Haha acpaul I think you nailed it. Patience is key. This was a killer book for me, one of the best books I’ve ever read.

You need some interest in science. For me, that wasn’t a prob.

You also need quite a lot of patience to learn the proper nouns that Stephenson uses extensively. At first it bugged me a bit, but then I realized: why would an alien planet call Hilbert space “Hilbert space”? Hilbert didn’t live there! If they discovered the same concept, it would be by someone else – Fraa Hemn, hence “Hemn space”. As for the few names of things that aren’t scientific theories like “jeejah”, “sline”, “speely” – there’s so few of these, and they’re based on Latin roots, that they are easy to remember. Aliens don’t have iPhones! They have jeejahs! See? Easy

Personally, both of these things are like candy to me, I LOVED this book!

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acpaul — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:16:03 +0000

I have always enjoyed long books because I read fast. I also enjoy series. I have never before read Stephenson because he normally does not appear to write in the genres I read.
That being said, I loved Anathem. I thought it might simply be one of the best books I’ve read all year. The blending of monastic life, math, science, philosophy and the real world was to me, awesome. But then, I do have the patience to sit through hundreds of pages of exposition.

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Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:00:32 +0000

I stop reading a book if any of the characters hails a taxi on page 100. Any other page is fine, but not on page 100. That’s when I stop reading.

Also, there should be no mention of Fig Newtons. Ever.

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Corey Redekop — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:53:29 +0000

I did finish it, and no Neal Stephenson is worthless. However, I think he got bogged down on the philosophy, and the plot meandered as a result. DUNE comparisons are fair, but I’ve returned to Herbert’s classic many times over the years. ANATHEM, I fear, will not hold the same fascination.

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RP — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:20:29 +0000

Luckily, the CD was only bundled with advance copies–purchasers of the retail edition can buy it or download the mp3s from the ANATHEM Web site.

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Rod — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:40:52 +0000

I guess I wasn’t willing to put in the work, because I enacted the 100-page rule on this one. By then, nothing had happened. Stephenson has spent eight pages describing a clock. It was maddening.

However, I did enjoy the two baffling, math-based short stories in the appendix, one of which involves how to properly cut a cake. But you failed to mention the CD of monk chants and “music” that comes with the book! It is singularly awful, and probably made my reading experience worse than it otherwise would have been.