Anathem

I haven't read a Neal Stephenson book that I haven't enjoyed and this was another pleasure to read.

Most of the negative comments that I have read are about the made up words. This is a sci-fi novel. There are made up names for things in almost every sci-fi novel I have ever read. In a phrase: Get Over It. Amongst the reasons for this are to remind you that this is a different world with different ways of going about things, that the devices are not exactly analogous to those in our world and that Mr. Stephenson chose to do it this way.

Still, I loved the book even if it did take me even longer than normal to get through it (many diversions with work, comics and life got in the way. Pre-schoolers have a way of destroying reading time unless you are reading with them.