neal stephenson books

[rmd]

i finally finished "system of the world" the other day (the third of the brick-like baroque cycle trilogy).

then i had to go skim through "cryptonomicon" again, because several of the really peculiar things in cryptonomicon are explained or at least informed by the baroque books.

overall, a fun set of books. i was loving the random historical cruft, so i didn't mind that stephenson seems to have tried to shoehorn all the historical trivia into the books.

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I just finished Declare by Tim Powers.. it felt very similar to Stephenson and Cryptonomicon in a lot of ways, but completely fun in its own right. plus, he put in an explanatory epilogue that talked about all of his sources :)