But what could be more literary than the metaphysical conclusions the novel wends its way to, which are that human imagination is a quantum device and the cosmos itself a kind of story ?" - Laura Miller, The Los Angeles Times (.) True, Erasmas is a bit callow (his cluelessness in romantic matters is one of the novel's running jokes), and his workmanlike first-person voice strips the customary brio out of Stephenson's prose. Anathem is also a campus novel, a counterpoint to Stephenson's little-known debut, The Big U. "Whenever you feel you have a handle on the story, at the moment you settle in, thinking, "Now I see what this book is about," the novel is liable to pivot on some previously unnoticed axis and head in another direction entirely.The only catch to reading a novel as imposingly magnificent as this is that for the next few months, everything else seems small and obvious by comparison." - Christopher Brookmyre, The Guardian "Weighing in at 800 head-stretching pages, Anathem demands a near-avout level of commitment, but rewards those who enter its concent with bounteous gifts of wisdom, beauty and "upsight". It’s heavy stuff, but the weightiness is leavened by a knowing humour." - James Lovegrove, Financial Times
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