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Mar. 15th, 2007 05:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceruseeI finally finished The Baroque Cycle. After about three months, with two short intervals to knock off a dozen or so fluffy Georgette Heyer Regency romances and half a dozen odd murder mysteries by Josephine Tey (just to clear my palate), I have finished reading ALL TWO THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND FORTY-SEVEN PAGES OF IT thank you herongale.
It's one of the best books I've ever read, period, hands down, no qualifications and no genre classifications. I recommend it to anyone who likes to read. Don't be scared by the page count; it's got a slow start, but within a few chapters, you'll be too caught up in the joy of Stephenson's prose* to even notice.
And now I go to read the earlier, yet chronologically later Cryptonomicon, which is a wussy thousand something pages, and I can probably knock off in under two weeks. HAH.
*He uses the word palimpsest. Repeatedly. People have been justly canonized for lesser accomplishments.
It's one of the best books I've ever read, period, hands down, no qualifications and no genre classifications. I recommend it to anyone who likes to read. Don't be scared by the page count; it's got a slow start, but within a few chapters, you'll be too caught up in the joy of Stephenson's prose* to even notice.
And now I go to read the earlier, yet chronologically later Cryptonomicon, which is a wussy thousand something pages, and I can probably knock off in under two weeks. HAH.
*He uses the word palimpsest. Repeatedly. People have been justly canonized for lesser accomplishments.