Baroque Cycle Quicksilver: The Baroque Cycle #1, Book 1, (Paperback)

from briandarvell

Quicksilver was a huge undertaking of a book. At times I found it amazing, at other times drawn-out and meandering. Overall I'm happy to have read it. It really was unlike any other book I've ever read in scale, historical depth and diversity. I will eventually like to read the sequels but I'll w...

from ConnieJo

I listened to the audiobook. I was initially very disappointed, I picked this up thinking it was a fantasy series. It's not (more historical fiction), but it slowly grew on me during the first few hours, and by the end I picked up King of the Vagabonds almost immediately. I was completely charmed...

from ohernaes

We follow the fictional character Daniel Waterhouse, a close spectator of the scientific revolution taking place in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and the Enlightenment in general. Daniel is a friend and aide of Newton, a member of the Royal Society, and encounters several scientifically ...

from michellebarton

the first book in the Baroque Cycle series. This is an epic historical novel filled with science, adventure, interesting characters (both famous and fictional), and ridiculousness. The separate storylines start out continents apart and eventually converge. I found this to be a fascinating, inform...

from ehines

A very steep falling-off from Cryptonomicon. The hipster/faux-18C idiom is terrible. The book is SLOW-moving and *far* more self-indulgent than Crypto, an already self-indulgent book, without any of the charm of the prior book. Here's hoping Stephenson still remembers how to write a novel.