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I'm about 80% of the way through Neal Stephenson's latest, Seveneves. It follows a pattern I've seen in his books lately. He seems to love explaining HOW things work, and spends probably 3/4 of the book explaining how various things work. He often goes on long tangents of either those kinds of explanations or of history on how this thing became what it is. And a lot like Anathem, it feels like most of the book isn't telling a story, but setting up the story he really wants to tell, somewhere in the last 100 pages of the book. It almost feels like this book could be (and should be) two novels with the last 250-300 pages being a sequel to the first part of the book. A lot of it is good but it's kind of a mess as a whole. I really hope he sticks the landing on his ending, as endings are usually the weakest parts of his work.
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