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Re: "Has anyone read Neil Stephenson's book Anathem? It's gotta..."

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Cryptonomicon is great. The Captain Crunch passage is useful for explaining why his books are on the long side :)

☕️ Morgan

2023-06-15 · 3 months ago

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🐵 akkartik

Yes! One of my favorite books by him, alongside Zodiac and Diamond Age.

2023-06-16 · 3 months ago

🪐 Rochelimit

I like Stephenson's stuff, but I've not read Anathem yet, so it's going on my list. :)

🌧️ eph

@stack, yeah the book definitely starts slowly and dryly. I like the fictionalized history of philosophy that it presents, though it was hard to keep track of the characters (e.g. Saunt Proc (the syntactic (realist) theor) vs Saunt Halikaarn (the semantic (nominalist) theor)).

☕️ Morgan

Anathem has a lot of ideas relevant to Gemini :) including what the web might end up as, and minimal use of high tech.

2023-06-17 · 3 months ago

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Has anyone read Neil Stephenson's book Anathem? It's gotta be one of my favorites.

💬 eph · 8 comments · 1 like · 2023-05-16 · 4 months ago