One word review of Stephenson's Quicksilver: Disappointing.
Two word review of Quicksilver: Sorely disappointing.
Ah, well. Maybe it'll be redeemed by the next book but my take on this first volume in the Baroque Cycle is that it's a whole lot of words used to avoid getting to the point of the story, whatever that might be. I was hoping for pirates, for a sense of resolution of any sort, for the questions to fewer than the answers by the time I got to the end of it.
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