The Confusion - Neal Stephenson

[handslive]

Just for my own notes, I finished The Confusion this week.  I think I liked it better than Quicksilver.  And it's made me want to get and read the next book.

Comments

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

I think you'll like System as well then. There was a lot of langour about Quicksilver, especially in the first half, and that's mostly the case for System. I guess I was a sucker for all the Olde London aspects of it as well.

[handslive.livejournal.com]

I also think I will like it.

The bit about Quicksilver that put me off was that it was hard to see where all of this was going. Great characters, fascinating dialog, lots of fun seeing situations and locations from this period and this point of view. But, um, why? The second book had two fairly clear objectives across the two story lines and followed them quite doggedly.

I think (hope?) that the goal given to Jack at the end of the second book will provide the linkage through the third book that will keep me from asking why. :-) But we'll see.