The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 2)
Registered by Libre-Muncher of Las Cruces, New Mexico USA on 1/17/2006
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
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This (as you can see from the title) is the second volume in Stephenson's Baroque Cycle. This volume is two books in one (similar to volume one Quicksilver which was three different books) and I will warn you, as I did before to keep track of the dates at the beginning of each chapter as well as the setting for that chapter. I have had a difficult time in attempting to catagorize these books in the trilogy until I noted on the back cover of this volume a quote from Entertainment Weekly which described the story line accurately as "the definitive historical-sci-fi-epic-pirate-comedy-punk-love story". The settings of these books do not hinder the author from using very modern, even "hip" language throughout the book, even in quotes by his characters.
Actually, the dates are not quite as important in this book as the location for each of the chapters. It is not necessary to keep track of which book you are reading because there are title pages at each transfer of books (Bonanza - Book 4 and Juncto - Book 5) and the story line will immediately alert you to the fact that you may be reading about Eliza, who wanders around Europe, but nowhere else or you are reading about Jack Shaftoe who wanders around the world in this volume.
Sites mentioned in this book include Egypt, "Hindoostan" (and Shahjahanabad - aka Delhi), Japan, Nuevo Espana (including Cabo San Lucas, Acapulco, the city of Mexico, Vera Cruz, Santa Fe in New Mexico) Jamaica and of course Qwghlm.
This book takes place in the later portion of the seventeeth and the first few years of the eighteenth centuries with the same fun-loving cast of famous people (Issac Newton, Louis IV, William of Orange, Princess Caroline most of whom have their pictues on the walls of the National Portrait Gallery in London).
I know, I said after reading the first of these that I would not go any further, but if you look at my bookshelf, you will see that I have already purchased the third volume, The System of the World. I guess that I am hopelessly addicted.
Actually, the dates are not quite as important in this book as the location for each of the chapters. It is not necessary to keep track of which book you are reading because there are title pages at each transfer of books (Bonanza - Book 4 and Juncto - Book 5) and the story line will immediately alert you to the fact that you may be reading about Eliza, who wanders around Europe, but nowhere else or you are reading about Jack Shaftoe who wanders around the world in this volume.
Sites mentioned in this book include Egypt, "Hindoostan" (and Shahjahanabad - aka Delhi), Japan, Nuevo Espana (including Cabo San Lucas, Acapulco, the city of Mexico, Vera Cruz, Santa Fe in New Mexico) Jamaica and of course Qwghlm.
This book takes place in the later portion of the seventeeth and the first few years of the eighteenth centuries with the same fun-loving cast of famous people (Issac Newton, Louis IV, William of Orange, Princess Caroline most of whom have their pictues on the walls of the National Portrait Gallery in London).
I know, I said after reading the first of these that I would not go any further, but if you look at my bookshelf, you will see that I have already purchased the third volume, The System of the World. I guess that I am hopelessly addicted.
Journal Entry 2 by Libre-Muncher at High Desert Brewing Company, 1201 W. Hadley Ave in Las Cruces, New Mexico USA on Sunday, May 7, 2006
Released 17 yrs ago (5/7/2006 UTC) at High Desert Brewing Company, 1201 W. Hadley Ave in Las Cruces, New Mexico USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
RELEASE NOTES:
The book was left on the outside wall around the patio, near the east end next to the flower (weed) box.
The book was left on the outside wall around the patio, near the east end next to the flower (weed) box.
