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Tanatach U tomasier3c0f — What a vast, exhausting, complicated mire of a book. Usually in a review I begin by summarizing the plot of a book, but this book doesn't have a plot in the traditional sense. Instead, it develops a picture of a fascinating time in human history (roughly Cromwell's revolution to the Glorious Revolution, with the period from 1688-1713 being covered, presumably, in the other two books in the series.) Oh, did I mention that this is the first book in a trilogy? And it is 900 pages long, and the other two are equally lengthy? It's about calculus, but not really - it's about information distribution and the laws that govern both nature (as discovered by the natural philosophers who figure prominently - Newton, Leibnitz, Hooke, Huygens, and Locke all turn up to give the philosophy students something to cheer for) and human beings (as discovered by Eliza [not a historical figure:], John Churchill, all the Stuarts, Louis XIV, William of Orange, et al.) It's about how history is created not by happenstance and not in a big lump, but by the individual choices of the individuals in it - and the amount of information that they have or lack stands in direct relation to the choices they make. Quicksilver is also about politics and the stock market. The bad parts: Stephenson is, I'll say it, not the world's greatest writer (by a long shot) and he could really use an editor. His characters often resort to a technique called "As you know, Bob" in order to get across the vast quantities of information the reader needs to understand what's going on (the reader is, I presume, not a Ph.D. in European history). AYKB is this sort of dialogue: Bob: What does that button do? James: Well, as you know, Bob, that button is connected to a vast array of solar-powered gyrocopters. Since today is the international gyrocopter festival, I pushed the button to launch them. This is just sloppy - Bob has no reason to ask what the button does, since he already knows. He's being used as a puppet to allow James to deliver this crucial piece of info to the audience. Stephenson does this ALL THE TIME, and it drives me nuts. The good parts: Stephenson does some things which are relatively daring and interesting - parts of the book are in the form of letters and drama, with diagrams and footnotes and various genealogical charts. And the book itself is very engrossing - the fact that his writing is not as graceful as other authors' does not make it unreadable by any means. In the way that some have called Ulysses a ruin of a novel that is fun to wander around in, it is hard to judge Quicksilver as a success or failure because it is difficult to figure out exactly what Stephenson was trying to accomplish. There is no overarching plot to draw one on to the next two books, though I'm sure I'll read them eventually.

George Hadfield hadfield — Great!