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Originally Posted by glatt
Anathem? Maybe I wasn't in the right frame of mind when I picked it up to read a couple years ago. I couldn't get past the first couple pages.
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It has an awkward start, as I recall. Did you read the explanation of the ancient timeline before starting? Stephenson put in this whole rant with it about how he didn't want to include it, he thought the story was better if you had to pick up the details along the way, but his publisher made him put it in anyway. Personally I thought it was very helpful in picking up on what was going on in the beginning.