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Neal Stephenson's The Confusion Released

Posted by michael on from the use-potion-of-clarity-to-avoid-confusion dept.

Jon Lasser writes "Neal Stephenson's 'The Confusion', second volume of his Baroque Cycle is released today. I received an advance copy and have a book review up here. The hypertext site for the trilogy is here. The short review: if you liked 'Quicksilver', this one is better; if you didn't, don't bother."

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  1. Re:Still haven't finished Quicksilver by squidfood · · Score: 5, Informative
    When I got Cryptonomicon, I put off reading that until I had a 15 hour flight. I got through the bulk of it in the 30 hour round trip.

    I took Quicksilver on a 12-hour flight, and at hour 4 I was fervently praying for it to alchemize into a different book.

    One the way back I bought three Terry Pratchetts in the airport instead.

  2. Metaweb by Bullet-Dodger · · Score: 5, Informative

    Didn't see it mentioned so, The Metaweb is Stephenson's wiki about Quicksilver (presumably information on the rest of the trilogy will be added). It's very interesting, has all kinds of information on the people and ideas in the book. Especially the annotations, add a lot of interesting background and details.