Pros: Piratical adventure on the high seas; Stephenson's as funny as ever. Cons: Endless monologues on naval minutiae soon wear thin; characters still not realistic in any way.
You might suppose, since I am an avid Neal Stephenson fan, and since The Confusion – the second in his Baroque Cycle trilogy – came out in April 2004, that I ran right out and bought the thing immediately, or perhaps even pre-ordered it and staged ...
Pros: Inimitable Stephenson style. True swashbuckling macroeconomic adventure Cons: Maybe too bloody and too broad.
When last we checked, sometime around 1685, our “hero”, Half-Cocked Jack Shaftoe, L’Emmerdeur, King of the Vagabonds, was spiraling into syphilitic insanity while at the same time being led off to his new life chained to an oar as yet another galley ...
Okay, at a thousand pages, this book isn't for everyone. Having read, all three books in this trilogy, I can claim that this is my favorite. This book, like the others in the set, speaks to a world in which science, philosophy, commerce and politics ...
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