The Confusion - Neal Stephenson
Jan. 14th, 2006 03:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
handsliveJust 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.
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Date: 2006-01-17 01:53 pm (UTC)Re: Oooops!
Date: 2006-01-17 02:05 pm (UTC)Being informative is, actually, one of the big draws of Fraser's books. I'll never be able to read Kipling the same way again. Fraser's view of historical events really breathes life into them.
Stephenson's view of world finance is similarly interesting. And, after The Confusion, I find myself wondering about his description of monads. Is this really how they were viewed by Leibniz? If so, that's one of the most interesting things I've read about historical scientific views.
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Date: 2006-01-17 02:42 pm (UTC)