false 2845024 16 El planeta Arbre estuvo al borde del colapso hace miles de años. Los nuevos intelectuales, los avotos, se reunieron en monasterios para iniciar un nuevo tipo de vida de reflexion sin elemento religioso alguno. El ritmo de evolucion y cambio de los avotos es lento, mientras el planeta sufre todo tipo de transformaciones. Ahora, casi cuatro mil años despues de la Reconstitucion y la fundacion del sistema cenobitico, el Poder Secular parece ocultar que hay una nave alienigena orbitando el planeta. Descubrirla, establecer contacto y comprender a esos extraños seres procedentes de otro lugar es el gran trabajo que espera al protagonista, fra Erasmas, discipulo del heterodoxo Orolo.. / Anathem, the latest invention by the New York Times bestselling author of Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle, is a magnificent creation: a work of great scope, intelligence, and imagination that ushers readers into a recognizableyet strangely invertedworld. Fraa Erasmas is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside ""saecular"" world by ancient stone, honored traditions, and complex rituals. Over the centuries, cities and governments have risen and fallen beyond the concent's walls. Three times during history's darkest epochs violence born of superstition and ignorance has invaded and devastated the cloistered mathic community. Yet the avout have always managed to adapt in the wake of catastrophe, becoming out of necessity even more austere and less dependent on technology and material things. And Erasmas has no fear of the outsidethe Extramurosfor the last of the terrible times was long, long ago 6163095 book 1 9 2008 Anathem total:2949|5:1289|4:1104|3:381|2:119|1:56| 2949 12298 6097 935 2845024 0061474096 9780061474095 2847 897 4.17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1224107150m/2845024.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2845024.Anathem 1 63 false Tue Sep 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 21 10:24:49 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 30 10:26:55 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2845024 0061474096 9780061474095 2847 897 4.17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1224107150m/2845024.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2845024.Anathem 3 21 false Sun Dec 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Aug 06 18:04:26 -0700 2008 Tue Dec 30 10:28:15 -0800 2008
Ok, maybe not, "Meh." exactly. Maybe more like, "Hmmm." I wish I could say something more elegant about it, but the problem is that there isn't a lot to say about ...more...]]> 2845024 0061474096 9780061474095 2847 897 4.17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1224107150m/2845024.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2845024.Anathem 4 17 false Sat Aug 30 06:35:25 -0700 2008 Wed Feb 25 01:53:48 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2845024 0061474096 9780061474095 2847 897 4.17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1224107150m/2845024.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2845024.Anathem 5 13 false Thu Oct 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 24 18:17:04 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 27 16:01:17 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2845024 0061474096 9780061474095 2847 897 4.17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1224107150m/2845024.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2845024.Anathem 5 13 true Sat Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 03 08:33:15 -0700 2008 Wed Feb 25 01:53:46 -0800 2009
I discovered Neal Stephenson with "Cryptonomicon", which was published...more...]]> 2845024 0061474096 9780061474095 2847 897 4.17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1224107150m/2845024.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2845024.Anathem 4 13 false Sat Sep 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 09 16:00:48 -0700 2008 Fri Dec 19 06:48:17 -0800 2008 Anathem is an astonishing, enormous, intimidating, and intensely enjoyable book. However, it is also the most "science fiction-y" of any book he's written so far, and that may turn some people off. Also, I'm given to understand that some people would prefer not to have to think about polar...more...]]> 2845024 0061474096 9780061474095 2847 897 4.17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1224107150m/2845024.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2845024.Anathem 5 10 false Fri Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 06 15:25:02 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 26 14:13:20 -0700 2008 Neal Stephenson has written. For one thing--I don't want to spoil it too much, so I will be vague--it has an actual, honest to goodness ending. The book's size might be a little daunting, especially to those readers who have come to expect unnecessary verbos...more...]]> 2845024 0061474096 9780061474095 2847 897 4.17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1224107150m/2845024.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2845024.Anathem 4 10 false Fri Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 06 17:57:07 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 21 21:02:58 -0700 2008
For about 200 pages, the endless pilgrimages to the glossary really wore me down. The future setting intrigued me, b...more...]]> 2845024 0061474096 9780061474095 2847 897 4.17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1224107150m/2845024.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2845024.Anathem 3 7 false Tue Sep 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 20 06:38:50 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 14 15:27:35 -0700 2008
The American novelist has long been considered one of the great madmen of science fiction, a towering intellect who synthesizes...more...]]> 2845024 0061474096 9780061474095 2847 897 4.17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1224107150m/2845024.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2845024.Anathem 5 5 false Tue Aug 19 05:42:41 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 01 13:06:24 -0700 2008 Wed Feb 25 01:53:46 -0800 2009
I haven't read a lot of Stephenson's other books - Snow Crash was something I mostly enjoyed, but it lost me in the mythology and such. I tried re...more...]]> 2845024 0061474096 9780061474095 2847 897 4.17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1224107150m/2845024.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2845024.Anathem 5 6 false Sat Oct 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 25 21:43:56 -0700 2008 Wed Feb 25 01:53:46 -0800 2009 Snow Crash (great) and The Diamond Age (good).I was drawn to this one because of how "science fictiony" it sounded, relative to his more recent work. Though it is hard to top Snow Crash, simply due to how much fun it was to read, ...more...]]> 2845024 0061474096 9780061474095 2847 897 4.17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1224107150m/2845024.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2845024.Anathem 5 6 false Sat Oct 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 09 09:35:39 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 11 22:58:26 -0700 2008 1 Anathem is another incredible book by Neal Stephenson, although probably not for everyone. Highly philosophical, brimming with hard science, it is the story of a world where scientists have been more-or-less sequestered for centuries in "maths" (the scientific equivalent of a monastery), l...more...]]> 2845024 0061474096 9780061474095 2847 897 4.17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1224107150m/2845024.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2845024.Anathem 4 3 false Sat Aug 30 19:06:52 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 30 19:07:54 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2845024 0061474096 9780061474095 2847 897 4.17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1224107150m/2845024.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2845024.Anathem 5 5 false Thu Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 27 20:03:57 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 03 14:37:43 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2845024 0061474096 9780061474095 2847 897 4.17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1224107150m/2845024.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2845024.Anathem 5 4 false Fri Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 16:09:25 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 16:49:47 -0700 2009
Okay, it's actually not for everyone. This review will try to help you decide if you should delve into Anathem.
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I will say what I say about every Stephenson book that I've read, which is that he has a talent for creating incredibly likable characters. I love everybody -- I even love reading about the "bad guys"...more...]]> 2845024 0061474096 9780061474095 2847 897 4.17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1224107150m/2845024.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2845024.Anathem 4 3 false Wed Jan 07 09:45:14 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 09:50:54 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2845024 0061474096 9780061474095 2847 897 4.17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1224107150m/2845024.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2845024.Anathem 2 3 true Tue Oct 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 22 08:16:01 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 28 17:34:45 -0700 2008
SPOILERS BELOW










The best part of this book is the vision of what Time Travel / Time Manipulation looks like from the perspective of those experiencing it...]]> 2845024 0061474096 9780061474095 2847 897 4.17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1224107150m/2845024.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2845024.Anathem 5 2 false Fri Sep 05 08:32:48 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 05 08:34:31 -0700 2008
There is something really wonderful about picking up a new book
that's over 900 pages long and every one of them is worth reading slowly
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