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I finished Neal Stephenson's Anathem over the weekend - all 900+ pages including appendices.

Wow... I was enthralled.

This is an ingenious thought experiment, eternally questing, learned, thoughtful and intensely relevant. I found it interesting that the book is written in a first person limited narrative mode. This is Stephenson's first use of first person in fiction that I have read, and it seemed effortless.

Like other of his books, the complexity of the settings and characters in Anathem has inspired a wiki which aspires to help fans track the characters, languages and culture, the history of Arbre (the the planet on which Anathem is (mostly) set), and parallels between scientific and technological thought on Arbre and Earth.