The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 2)
Registered by OffKilter of Vancouver, British Columbia Canada on 10/31/2006
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Stephenson’s Confusion was a great follow up to Quicksilver (the book that literally took me 5 months or more to read). The book was a combination of two books following the main characters from Quicksilver as they went their separate ways (on the point of a harpoon tossed into Jack by the lovely Eliza) with chapters cut and pasted into basic chronological order. This made things a bit weird at times, but I think it helped break up some of the LONG tedium that Stephenson tends towards when he is in a descriptive mode.
Stephenson’s style did seem punchier in this book, there was less exposition and more story telling. This could have been because it was broken up as I mention above, but I think more likely it’s just the way the writing was done and how hard his editor smacked his hands with a ruler ;)
The obvious question would be if you can just jump into The Confusion without sitting through Quicksilver. I don’t think so. So much of the story requires that knowledge of things past or it just doesn’t make sense.
Rating: 6.5/10 - I liked it, but there was still a bit too much extra reading required. Stephenson is a fantastic story teller, but he has to get through all the detail and into the story more.
Stephenson’s style did seem punchier in this book, there was less exposition and more story telling. This could have been because it was broken up as I mention above, but I think more likely it’s just the way the writing was done and how hard his editor smacked his hands with a ruler ;)
The obvious question would be if you can just jump into The Confusion without sitting through Quicksilver. I don’t think so. So much of the story requires that knowledge of things past or it just doesn’t make sense.
Rating: 6.5/10 - I liked it, but there was still a bit too much extra reading required. Stephenson is a fantastic story teller, but he has to get through all the detail and into the story more.
Journal Entry 2 by OffKilter at Starbucks (see notes for details) in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada on Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Released 17 yrs ago (11/1/2006 UTC) at Starbucks (see notes for details) in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada
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