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wildfire405  ·  3456 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What was the latest book you read?

I'm currently reading "Anathem" by Neal Stephenson. Man this book is awesome. You read the first hundred pages and you feel like you're mashing your head against a brick wall. All the strange words. Having absolutely no context. . . .Crazy. But once you get into it, feel the flow, learn those references, it just flows. By 400 pages in, a third the words on the page aren't English anymore but I can understand every word. I want to be an Avout.

So cool.

"The Martian" is next, followed by a book I was loaned called "Packing for Mars." That was a coincidence.