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AnathemI think this novel is wonderful. So I don’t want to put you off. But let’s be clear: there is plenty to put you off.
There is a strong case for thinking this book utterly tiresome. Please, don’t. You’ll miss quite a lot if you do.
Reading it will, however, involve developing an interest in the history and content of all of geometry, physics, mathematics, philosophy and quantum mechanics, each of them expressed in a new language, and set in an imagined society: without being willing to grapple with those things, you won’t get far.
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Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson is fantastic, as is the equally brilliant Cryptonomicon, but I haven’t got around to reading anything else by him, even though I own most of his novels – except this one, which I haven’t picked up yet.