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I'm almost done reading this series for the second time (~400 pages left in System of the World). I own all three in hardcover and was halfway through Quicksilver for the second time when I bought my reader. So, of course, I bought all three ebooks through Connect with my $50 credit (why couldn't there have been the bundle price then!).
When I first tried reading Quicksilver, it took me a three times to get in to it (read a few hundred pages, switched to a different book, started over). I did eventually get in to it and I liked them (obviously, since I'm reading them again). There's a lot of elements of history in here, some accurate, some stretched or entirely made up for the purpose of the story. There was some level of this in Cryptonomicon, but it is taken much further and the history (fictional or not) plays a significant role in this series. What makes this series interesting to me, is that there isn't necessarily one overarching plot that encompasses the series. It's more about a number of subplots that criss-cross and tangle. Again this is similar to Cryptonomicon, but taken further.
Anyways, only one of my friends I've recommended the series to made it past the first 500 pages of Quicksilver. He seemed to like it, the rest obviously didn't. The one who made it is also a prolific reader.
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