i’m that kind of reader
House on Red Corner · 2007-05-24
i just finished spending nearly a month and a half with Neal Stephenson’s massive novel, The Baroque Cycle. its quite tome that is best described as period-science fiction. period because its set during the span of time that involves Sir Isaac Newton, and sci-fi because he deals with some stuff that was just a little beyond the era.
mr. stephenson is an astonishingly adept builder of characters and i found myself falling deeply into involvement with all of the main creations and even for the presentations of the truly historical characters ( it is not often that a work of fiction inspires me to run off to wikipedia and look up new stuff from history, just to learn about the way it really was!)
now that i have burned through 3000 pages of splendid story, i will have to find something else to entertain me during the wee hours where i should be dreaming. maybe i’ll try sleeping for a change.
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