Baroque Cycle The System of the World, Book 3, (Paperback)

from mrtall

The System of the World, the third and final entry in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, is happily the best of the lot. This is a significant point, in that reading the entire cycle requires the reader to work through 2,668 pages of always-interesting - but often surprisingly dense - prose. In thi...

from jmvilches

In 1714, Daniel Waterhouse finishes his long trip from America to England. He is prepared to mediate a vicious argument between Newton and Leibniz about who invented calculus first. But he is quickly caught up in diverse adventures: building a logic mill, sleuthing out a bomb maker, playing shell...

from jenkstom

The final portion of the trilogy (octology?) that is Stephenson's Baroque Cycle continues the sometimes esoteric, yet totally addictive, story line set in the time of Newton, Hooke and Leibniz. While some of the previous volumes bogged down, it all pays off here when plot lines thrown across the ...

from kukulaj

This book and the trilogy of which it is the conclusion, these don't really develop rich characters. The number of characters is reasonably small so we hear and see their actions again and again. But it's one of these Rube Goldberg contraptions. The whole plot is wildly, impossibly complex and in...

from magemanda

This is the third book in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle - well, the last three books, since Stephenson actually wrote eight books that made up the cycle which were then published to form a trilogy. Here the majority of the action takes place in London, where virtually all of the protagonists we...