King of the Vagabonds

from johnnyapollo

What's interesting about this book were all the subtle references to things which we are all now familiar, yet are contemporary to the time period of the book's story - I guess that's something that that's common in much historic fantasy. I really like the protagonist, "Half-Cock" Jack Shaftoe - ...

from Gregorio_Roth

This is an awesome series.

from santhony

This is Volume I, Book Two of the author's Baroque Cycle. Book One, Quicksilver followed Daniel Waterhouse, a member of the 17th century English Royal Society, through two story threads that involved his early college years and his later life in the Massachusetts colony. Waterhouse makes no appea...

from Gregorio_Roth

This is an awesome series.

from PghDragonMan

If you've read Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver and The Confusion, this book will bore you silly. If you slice out all the scenes without or that do not contribute to the character of Jack Shaftoe, Stephenson's Falstaff for this epic story of nobles and late 17th Century Europe, what you have left i...