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The title of Stephenson's vast, splendid and absorbing sequel to Quicksilver (2003) suggests the state of mind that even devoted fans may face on occasion as they follow the glorious and exceedingly complex parallel stories of Jack Shaftoe, amiable criminal mastermind, and Eliza, Countess de la Zeur, courageous secret agent and former prisoner in a Turkish harem. In 1689, Jack recovers his memory in Algiers, evades galley slavery and joins a quest for the lost treasure of a Spanish pirate named Carlos Olancho Macho y Macho. This leads to adventures at sea worthy of Patrick O'Brian, and hairbreadth escapes from the jaws of the Inquisition. Meanwhile, Eliza is captured by the historical (and distinguished) French privateer Jean Bart while trying to escape to England with her baby. She must then navigate the intrigues of the court of Louis XIV, which are less lethal than those of the Inquisition by a small margin, but still make for uneasy sleep for a friendless female spy. Her correspondence with such scientific minds as Wilhelm Leibniz helps propel the saga's chronicling of the roots of modern science at a respectable clip. Of course, one can't call anything about the Baroque Cycle "brisk," but the richness of detail and language lending verisimilitude t? the setting and depth to the characters should be reward enough for most readers.
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*Starred Review* This guy really likes to write long books. Cyptonomicon, his 1999 epic, was roughly the same length as the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy. Quicksilver (2003), the first volume of his Baroque Cycle, was well over 900 pages, and this second installment is in the same ballpark. It picks up the story in 1689. Jack Shaftoe, self-proclaimed king of the vagabonds, is a galley slave, but that's soon going to change: he and nine of his fellow slaves engineer an escape. Their plan, to steal a cache of Spanish silver, turns out better (and also worse) than they could have imagined. Meanwhile, Eliza, a notorious spy whom Jack once rescued from a Turkish harem, is trying to get to London with her newborn baby. Set during one of history's most exciting times, from 1600 to 1750, this series brilliantly captures the intellectual excitement and cultural revolution of the era. With real-life supporting characters such as Isaac Newton and Wilhelm Leibnitz, the series blends fact and fiction so cleverly that it is virtually impossible to separate one from the other. Stephenson is a graceful writer, never getting bogged down in detail, keeping the story moving, dazzling us with his technique. The concluding volume of the trilogy is scheduled to appear in October 2004, and it's fair to say anyone who reads this one will spend the intervening months waiting with breathless anticipation. David Pitt
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4.0étoiles sur 5 erudite fiction, Jui 8 2004
Par I ain't no porn writer (author, "Crippled Dreams") - Voir tous mes commentaires
This review is from: The Confusion: Volume Two Of The Baroque Cycle (Hardcover)
This is a slow-paced narrative, without a clear straightforward plot, which requires more reading patience that your average historical novel. But the style is rich and the characters are engaging and very well-developed. The reader will be swept away by an adventurous tale of slavery, freedom, and fortune-hunting, among other storylines interwoven in this ambitious work. Indeed, this literary tale might not satisfy readers of more lightweight commercial fiction, but Neal Stephenson is a great stylist whose writing will appeal to the scholar in you.

David Rehak
author of "Love and Madness"

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5.0étoiles sur 5 Absolutely Briliant, Juil 19 2004
Par Jotham Kinder (Boston. Because this will be the year the Red Sox win the Series.) - Voir tous mes commentaires
This review is from: The Confusion: Volume Two Of The Baroque Cycle (Hardcover)
This is a beast of a book, wild, ferocious and full of mystery. One of those mysteries is the origin of the modern world. Using the medium of fiction, Stephanson strips away layer after layer of recieved wisdom and shows us how a few extrodinary people, and a great deal of ordinary ones, invented the modern notions of finance, banking, credit, trade, stock markets, globalization and the little matter of science. Yes, these people invented science as we know it. And Stephanson will show you the world they inhabited, page after page, untill you feel that you are amongst the greatest minds Europe ever produced.

Which is not to say that The Confusion is all about dry academic discourse. The first page of the book finds Jack Shafto miraculusly cured of syphilis, wandering confusedly on a beach while a fifteen hundred gun salute is fired in the honor of the Caliph. From there, we are engaged in one of the best travelouges, adventure stories and general assembiledges of all out mayhem ever collected in one volume.

In the spirit of equal oppertunities, this is not strictly a lads book. Equal time is given to Eliza, a former Harem virgin,and by her own wits and courage created a duchess in two nations. Also, by the end of the book, a mother of three.

Now, this is a long book, and jam packed with details. Like the art which insipred it's name, the book contains ever increasing levels of ornimentation and detail, built on mathimatically and geometricly pure lines. Well, curves actually. Quite often, the reader can become lost in the welth of images and imagry. Not to worry. Stephanson provides both Newton and Liebinitz to explain the nature of those curves and ornimentation. Even if the titans occasionally disagree.

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5.0étoiles sur 5 Much Better Than Cryptonomicon, Juil 17 2004
Par John Kwok (New York, NY USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: The Confusion: Volume Two Of The Baroque Cycle (Hardcover)
Neal Stephenson's second volume in The Baroque Cycle, "The Confusion", is the best work of fiction I've seen from him in years. It is an intriguing, swashbuckling tale that is part of a three volume prequel to his celebrated "Cryptonomicon", of which this novel can be regarded as a historical fiction prequel. However, unlike "Cryptonomicon", Stephenson has offered an exciting tale of adventure, describing the advent of the information age during the end of the Baroque period and the beginning of the Age of Enlightenment. Here Stephenson continues his dual saga featuring the "King of the Vagabonds" - adventurer and former slave - Jack Shaftoe as he travels through the Muslim world, India, Southeast Asia and the Americas with a motley crew comprised of Northern Europeans, Arabs and a Japanese Roman Catholic priest and Eliza, the Countess de la Zeur, his former lover. Stephenson has wrought daring sea battles reminiscent of Patrick O'Brian's best in the acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series. And like O'Brian, he excels in writing dense, descriptive prose with some rathering modern twists thrown in. Until I read "The Confusion", I thought Stephenson's best novel was "The Diamond Age", but this is not a "confusion" but instead, a splendid celebration of Stephenson at his best, crafting lengthy, but exciting tales of adventure.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Act II -- Amazing.
Put simply: this book blows Quicksilver out of the water. All of the potential that the opening act showed really did come to fruition in this opus. Read more
Publié le Juil 12 2004 par Sam Saunders

5.0étoiles sur 5 I'm not confused anymore
I was one of the ones that loved Quicksilver, but only gave it four stars. As other reviews pointed out, and as was immediately apparent when reading it, "The... Read more
Publié le Juil 10 2004 par W. Read

4.0étoiles sur 5 Better than quicksilver
I enjoy Stephenson's writing, when he's hot he's hot, but he's still working hard to learn how to piece together his inspired moments. Read more
Publié le Juil 1 2004 par zakthor

4.0étoiles sur 5 A Stephenson Fan
I just love reading the words Neal Stephenson writes. I love the swashbucking. I love the intrigue. Read more
Publié le Juil 1 2004 par M. Benefield

5.0étoiles sur 5 Better than Quicksilver, but the jury remains out
I think just as many people were bored with Quicksilver as excited by it and for those in the former catagory, I can only say that it does get better. Read more
Publié le Juil 1 2004 par Michael Battaglia

5.0étoiles sur 5 Another triumph for Stephenson
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Stephenson remains one of the most thrilling of authors. His wit, his prose, his dialogue, his drawing of characters, they really are almost... Read more

Publié le Jui 30 2004 par Inchoatus.com

5.0étoiles sur 5 Worth the Weight
"The Confusion" is the second weighty volume in Neal Stephenson's gigantic "Baroque Cycle. Read more
Publié le Jui 24 2004 par David Schaich

5.0étoiles sur 5 Confusion Rules
Confusion is both the second volume in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle and also the best. It takes off right where its predecessor volume, Quicksilver, ended. Read more
Publié le Jui 17 2004 par Charles J. Rector

4.0étoiles sur 5 Already much better than number one in the series
After the enjoyment that I got out of reading Cryptonomicon and Snow Crash, Quicksilver, the first part of Stephenson's Baroque Trilogy, came as quite a disappointment. Read more
Publié le Jui 16 2004 par B. Gone

2.0étoiles sur 5 One step above a history textbook
I have journeyed through this Confusion for a month thinking I should be reading something else. The book is a piece of baroque in need of major editing. Read more
Publié le Jui 15 2004

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