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Originally Posted by HarryT
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.
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Funnily enough, I found
Cryptonomicon a rapid fascinating read -- no problems with finishing it.
In
Quicksilver, I really enjoyed the sections focusing on Newton, Waterhouse, and the Royal Society, as well as the early scenes set in the New World (MIT?), but the sections wallowing in the politics of Europe, and the genesis of stock exchange trading proved tedious.