I've heard of Stephenson, though never read anything, but when I learned about Anathem a couple months ago, I got really intrigued. I bought it last weekend and started reading it last night (after some *ahem* format shifting
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I only got well into the glossary, which I had decided to read first. Now I think I should print it out before I continue. That's the bad things about an e-reader; slower and more "difficult" to look up things in a glossary.
I'm fascinated by language, and I'm very intrigued by the subtle way Stephenson has manipulated English into "Arbre" words - words that are almost but not quite an English word, and often also holds secondary meanings. I love that
