Hmm, I cannot resist following up Clint's and Jaldhar's have you read geeky books"-meme. I "score" 10/20 on the first list, but only 4.5 on the second one (Stephenson _again_, Pynchon, Tolkien, Lem and "Through The Looking Glass.) BTW reading now: Chronicles of Narnia, next in queue Jasper Fforde's Something Rotten.
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