A Book Log
Nice review. I'm not sure what I have to add to it, which is probably as good an explanation as any as to why I've been procrastinating my own write-up. I didn't like it as much as Cryptonomicon, though, for reasons which I may eventually get around to stating more articulately, or maybe not.
Trent (trent.goulding@mho.com) (http://home.mho.com/trent.goulding/books/blcurrent.html) -- Fri Oct 24 17:05:19 2003
I liked it differently. It was less zingy than Cryptonomicon (though far from completely serious), but the counterpoint is that it was less facile.
Also, I suspect that if you were an expert on the time period Stephenson's talking about here, it'd be less interesting -- part of the fun is the laying-out of an alien society, and if it's not alien to you, you'll miss that. Fortunately for me, all of my history stops right before this period. (I mean, literally right before: One of my English history classes was supposed to go to the Glorious Revolution, but we ran out of time and stopped at the Civil War instead, so the book picks up exactly as my history ends.)
Mike Kozlowski (web@klio.org) (http://www.klio.org/marks/) -- Fri Oct 24 17:15:41 2003
Cool. Thanks for writing a more substantial review than mine- it appears we certainly agree on the merits of the book.
Nathan (lundblad@caltech.edu) (http://lundblad.caltech.edu/lundblog/) -- Sat Oct 25 16:02:40 2003
I'm about 250 pages into Quicksilver right now, and I love it. I really think it's a shame that the /. crowd seems so scared of a little history--I mean, if you think about it, this is *their* history, the story of the geeks and early adoptors and savants of the time.
Oh well. I frankly don't care *what* anyone else thinks of it. I love it.
Erica (erica@sperari.com) (http://www.sperari.com) -- Mon Dec 8 14:08:43 2003