The Magic Pantry

I got Neal Stephenson’s Anathem for my birthday earlier this year, and have recently finished reading it. Awesome stuff. D. and I had previously read the Baroque Cycle together, but I recently realised that she hadn’t experienced any other of his books, so we binged on audio versions of Snow Crash and The Diamond Age. Today we visited Wil, and I spied Cryptonomicon on his bookshelf, so I nabbed it for a re-read (last read it 8 years ago), with the intention of passing it over to D. afterwards. I don’t think I’ll ever own a copy of Cryptonomicon… my PhD supervisor set fire to my first copy (he smokes cigars while reading), and I left the replacement he bought me in Israel (I fled on September 10, 2001 and never returned).