Reading Recommendation: Anathem (Neal Stephenson)

I just finished Anathem.  It was a marathon read.  I read it across my Kindle (easy on the eyes) and the Anathem[image error]audio book (awesome.   Well-read and well-produced).

I hated it at the beginning.  Slow, ponderous.  But once I got into it, the world is so deep and so exact it was a pleasure to be inside.  I felt like I lived on the planet...