《Anathem》的前 100 页左右读起来简直像在受罪，主要是因为构建世界观需要大量的背景铺垫。然而，它属于那种（对我个人来说另一本是 Frank Norris 的《章鱼》（The Octopus））只要读者肯花时间去理解它所构建的世界，就一定会获得丰厚回报的书。这两本书我都是一口气读完最后几百页，结果发现…
The first 100 pages or so of Anathem seemed like such a chore to get through, mainly because of the tons of exposition required to build the world. It was one of those books, however (Frank Norris' The Octopus being the other for me personally,) that really rewards the reader for taking the time to understand the world that is built. In both cases I read the last few hundred pages straight through to find…
…中央太平洋铁路公司因一笔土地交易而臭名昭著，该交易导致农民被剥夺土地，并在 1870 年代后期引发了流血暴动。这起事件正是 Frank Norris 的反商业小说《章鱼》（The Octopus）的原型，该事件激起了巨大的公众愤慨，导致人们痛恨所有的铁路和大企业。但这笔交易涉及政府给予“四巨头”（Big Four）的土地——并且…
…Central Pacific is notorious for a land deal which led to the dispossession of farmers and to bloody riots in the late 1870’s. This is the incident which served as the basis for the anti-business novel, The Octopus, by Frank Norris, the incident which caused great public indignation and led to hatred of all railroads and of all big business. But this deal involved land given to the Big Four by the government—and…
《Anathem》的前 100 页左右读起来简直像在受罪，主要是因为构建世界观需要大量的背景铺垫。然而，它属于那种（对我个人来说另一本是 Frank Norris 的《章鱼》（The Octopus））只要读者肯花时间去理解它所构建的世界，就一定会获得丰厚回报的书。这两本书我都是一口气读完最后几百页，结果发现…
The first 100 pages or so of Anathem seemed like such a chore to get through, mainly because of the tons of exposition required to build the world. It was one of those books, however (Frank Norris' The Octopus being the other for me personally,) that really rewards the reader for taking the time to understand the world that is built. In both cases I read the last few hundred pages straight through to find…
…中央太平洋铁路公司因一笔土地交易而臭名昭著，该交易导致农民被剥夺土地，并在 1870 年代后期引发了流血暴动。这起事件正是 Frank Norris 的反商业小说《章鱼》（The Octopus）的原型，该事件激起了巨大的公众愤慨，导致人们痛恨所有的铁路和大企业。但这笔交易涉及政府给予“四巨头”（Big Four）的土地——并且…
…Central Pacific is notorious for a land deal which led to the dispossession of farmers and to bloody riots in the late 1870’s. This is the incident which served as the basis for the anti-business novel, The Octopus, by Frank Norris, the incident which caused great public indignation and led to hatred of all railroads and of all big business. But this deal involved land given to the Big Four by the government—and…