by Neal Stephenson
I am going to wait a month or two before finishing Eliza's and Jack Shaftoe's love story, "The System of the World" and follow it up with "Cryptonomicon". I enjoyed "The Confustion" more than "Quicksilver" Particularly how Mr. Stephenson played European Aristocracy (Eliza's story) against the cult...
Review to follow.After this I read: Rivers of London
Still an interesting story, but I got a little bogged down in the latter half of the book. Some of this may have been because I only had short snatches of time to read, but I do think some of it may have been due to splitting of the "Bonanza" and "Juncto" books. With so many characters and intertwin...
Loved the Quicksilver portion of the trilogy, but this second part wasn't nearly as compelling or fun a read.
Two novels are interspersed - the continuing story of Daniel, Jack and Eliza - from Versailles to the Spanish Inquisition in Mexico - non stop adventure...
Second in "The Baroque Cycle" (or, the 4th and 5th books in it, to use Stephenson's reckoning).I didn't find this to be a quick read.Stephenson IS a good writer, and the book is really filled with interesting thoughts and turns of phrase. But it just doesn't move you along in the way an entertaining...
I enjoyed this more than Vol 1, for the raucous and bawdy bits. Jack gets to indulge in swashbuckling, Eliza has problems, Newton and Leibniz fight like cats and dogs, and Waterhouse sets sail for Massachusetts. The Cycle is truly epic in scope, and this volume is more of a romp than the others.
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