Baroque Cycle: Quicksilver (Audiobook)

from 5hrdrive

Lots of interesting stuff here from natural philosophy to the Restoration to the Glorious Revolution, but the tedious bits are almost overwhelming. The letters of the third book are the most tedious of all - but I'm glad I made it through to the end, it feels like quite an accomplishment to say t...

from magemanda

It is so very hard to classify this book - the first in an extremely weighty trilogy (this book alone weighs in at over 900 pages!) Is it fantasy? Is it science fiction? It is historical? It most certainly is dense, dull, delightful and dry. The book is split into three different sections. The fi...

from orangemonkey

Stephenson's previous work, Cryptonomicon, was easily the best book I've read in the past several years, so it was with great excitement that I approached this book. Overall it was a very good year, although I think that it was definitely not in the same league as the Crypto. The book is divided ...

from jmvilches

Daniel Waterhouse is summoned to return to Europe from Massachusetts to resolve a dispute between prominent mathematicians Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. During his voyage, which is interrupted by pirates, he works on a chronicle of his past, which is set against a rich tapestry of r...

from davidabrams

Earnest readers approach new books like a relationship. They size up the heft of the tome, the thickness of spine, the cosmetics of the cover, and they think to themselves, "Should I get involved? Do I really want to commit?" After all, for three days or three weeks, they will be wedded to these ...