I'm currently reading "Anathem" by Neal Stephenson. Man this book is awesome. You read the first hundred pages and you feel like you're mashing your head against a brick wall. All the strange words. Having absolutely no context. . . .Crazy. But once you get into it, feel the flow, learn those references, it just flows. By 400 pages in, a third the words on the page aren't English anymore but I can understand every word. I want to be an Avout.

So cool.

"The Martian" is next, followed by a book I was loaned called "Packing for Mars." That was a coincidence.