= 27d567bc2d48d9f40e9ccc20ea370b15)
Jonathan_Graehl comments on Book Recommendations - Less Wrong
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
= 783df68a0f980790206b9ea87794c5b6)
Loading…= b715d02e85f7b3b4ae65ca3d3e450868)
Subscribe to RSS Feed
Powered by Reddit
= f037147d6e6c911a85753b9abdedda8d)
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
Comments (143)
Anathem was fabulous - although, like his other works, it got kooky at the end (his worst offender: Diamond Age, which was beautifully begun and oddly ended).
How so? I loved the ending, and thought the beginning (about Nell's father) was sort of an annoying "take that" to Cyberpunk classics.
I'm glad you liked it. On the whole, I also enjoyed the book. I only vaguely remember now (years after reading), but wasn't there some sort of undersea modified-human group-mind entity at the end? I more enjoyed the first 2/3 of the book, before the disjointed action-movie climax (a similar proportion holds for my enjoyment of Anathem).
Stephenson is still one of my favorite authors (although for some reason I've still only read the first of his Baroque series).