Quicksilver
(Baroque Cycle vol 1, book 1)
Neal Stephenson

Quicksilver (Baroque Cycle vol 1, book 1)       ISBN 0060833165

Purchased: November, 2006.
Fun read, if you skim the excess exposition.

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Overall Impression

(Quicksilver was the first novel I picked up after a long time without reading any novels, so my impressions might be skewwed.)

This was an overall fun read, which I thoroughly enjoyed once I accepted skimming its. There were a few things that bothered me, though. The only one worth mentioning directly was Newton's constantly foreshadowing Einstein. It's just bad form, in my humble opinion, and felt like a belabored in-joke among those who would find it "ironic."

Quotes

I have some quotes to put in here, but those will have to wait until I get it back from a friend.

Related Material

• King of the Vagabonds, the second book in the series.
• Odalisque, the third book in the series.
• The Confusion, the second volume (books 4-6) in the Baroque Cycle.