If you have read any Socratic dialogues or any Thucydides or you made it through Light: add 7 points.Īdd up all the point values and if you tally over 10 points or so, you’d probably enjoy this book.Īt 937 pages, Anathem is a hefty read. If you have ever considered becoming a monk: add 6 points If you were a math, computer science, or philosophy major: add 5 points. If you liked A Canticle for Leibowitz: add 4 points. If you like other Neal Stephenson books or Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation” series: add 3 points. If you like to read science-fiction or have read Einstein’s Dreams or you’ve heard of Penrose tiles: add 2 points. I ended up liking Anathem a lot, but it’s not for everyone. Then I saw that fellow Googler Riona MacNamara had downloaded it to her Kindle, so I decided to take a whack at it. I’ve read all of Stephenson’s early work, but the Baroque Cycle didn’t grab me. So as penance for all that microblogging, I decided to set myself a thick book to read. I have a sneaking suspicion that hanging out on Twitter is causing my attention span to grow shorter and shorter and … wait, what was I talking about? Oh, short attention span, right.
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