I’m probably the last blogger still reading Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle, and chances are good that I won’t take on the third part, The System of the World, immediately after finishing the second, The Confusion. Not because the books aren’t good, just that it is a lot to read consecutively. The good news is that …
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Oct 12 2005
The Con-fusion
- By Doug Merrill in Doug, History, Review, Science Fiction
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October 12, 2005
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Apr 11 2005
Slowsilver
- By Doug Merrill in Doug, History, Review, Science Fiction, Short Takes
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April 11, 2005
Because I mentioned Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver a couple of times earlier this year, I will now add that I’ve finished reading it. The pace picks up a bit around page 800. To be slightly less unfair, I should say that a number of people have told me that the second and third books are better. …
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Feb 07 2005
A Note …
- By Doug Merrill in Doug, Review, Science Fiction
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February 7, 2005
Upon Reading the First Ninth of Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle It is a Frolick, a Cornucopia of interesting things, a narrative of the discovery of the calculus, scientific feuds, dissection, Religious Dissent, changing fashions in art, the return of comedy to the English stage, computation, coinage, banking and much, much more. One of the Leading …
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