For fans of and those interested in the author of *Snow Crash*, *The Diamond Age*, *Cryptonomicon*, *The Baroque Cycle*, *Anathem* and others.
I’m about a third of the way through this book. It’s quite fascinating and initially a difficult read. Compared to Snow Crash and Diamond Age, this is an entirely different sort of work. I will avoid spoiling it, but the big reveal does take some time getting to. Would like to hear what others thought about reading it. Learning all the novel words feels like nonsense at first. The dictionary entries help, but it does feel like a slog sometimes. Once one gets through that, it is really amazing to try and understand concepts of philosophy and science being discussed in an alien language. The Concents quite resemble our universities mixed with a monastery. Math takes on a pseudo religious atmosphere.