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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
I FINALLY made it through Quicksilver, volume 1 of Neal Stephenson's ambitious (and lengthy) Baroque Cycle. I had made numerous previous attempts, but always bogged down in the lengthy mid-section set in war-torn Europe, which featured the invention of the stock market. The scope of Stephenson's historical knowledge is staggering, as are his imaginative riffs on historical characters and events.
I think I'll wait a bit before embarking upon The Confusion.
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I tend to get bogged down in Stephenson, too. "Cryptonomicon" is one of the very few books I've abandoned, I just found it so heavy going.