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Book-A-Month – August 2009 #2
It caught my eye as I walked past my basement bookshelf last week. My favorite Stephenson novel, Zodiac, sitting squarely between The Big U and Snow Crash, looking particularly tempting, was too hard to resist. So, over the course of 3 or 4 shockingly long baby naps, I breezed through the 308 pages that make up this entertaining, thought-provoking and possibly-way-too-informative eco-thriller. Continue reading
Book-A-Month – May 2009 (Finally)
The book is overall fantastic. I thought that Stephenson didn’t spend nearly enough time on Waterhouse’s, and consequently Newton’s, story line in this book, which was 80% about Jack and his adventures as galley slave/king/pirate in Eurasia, Eliza in high France and the other side of Cryptology and Natural Philosophy. Maybe a bit too much about high France.
Stephenson does such a great job of using real history’s characters and their actions as a plot background. He takes history and inserts Waterhouses and Shaftoes (and of course, Enoch Root) and makes them the unnamed companions to existing historical figures. It’s a really great way to set the stage within the world of the real, but give yourself enough artistic license to write two-thousand pages about what didn’t really happen within what did. Continue reading
Anathem
I was incredibly excited to read that Neal Stephenson‘s next novel, Anathem, will be released this September. *does a little dance* The amazon affiliate boxy thing on the right doesn’t look nearly as cool as it could with the actual … Continue reading
Reading a book per month
When I talked about Quadrant II, I also mentioned coming up with a long list of goals for things to accomplish over the next few years. Two related goals were: Read one book per month. Read the entire Baroque Cycle … Continue reading
