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Matt's review of
Anathem byNeal Stephenson
I don't get this complaint either. Hard sci-fi stories have a far worse googlies/snarfle problem. And most of the terms are obvious after a little contemplation:
Fraa -> Frere (brother) Saunt -> Saint (with more complexity to the meaning, obviously) etc..
It takes a little more work to figure out the correspondence between various saunts and human philosophers/mathematicians, but that's half the fun. :)
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to: Anathem (Hardcover)byNeal Stephenson
This is a masterpiece. Read it.
You don't get into the "meat" of the book for at least 300 pages, but given what Stephenson is creating here, in retrospect that's not really surprising. If anything I'm surprised it didn't take a whole "Cycle" of books to get through all of the ideas.
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Erin's review of
The Alchemist byPaulo Coelho
Definitely want to hear your opinion on this one.
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The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk; Palace of Desire; Sugar Street (Everyman's Library)
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to: The Aleph and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)byJorge Luis Borges
This is a collection of short stories in a mix of lengths from the mid-range (twenty pages or more) to some that are very short indeed (just a paragraph or two) and Borges shows that he is the master of both. What ties them all together is a treatment of the existential and the philosophical-- questions of reality, eternity, conspiracy, identity, the supernatural, the metaphysical and the fantastic. Yet, if I had to describe his style concisely I would call it "rational" or "scholarly". His writing is riddled with allusions and references, and in some places even footnotes, that in the space of a few words span hundreds of years and thousands of miles. In this way even the shortest story has unusual weight and gravity.