"The Baroque Cycle"

[kosmo]

Anyone else read Neal Stephenson's three volume epic? If so, whadya think?

Published about 6 years ago, this is an amazing adventure story on the level of history, science, religon and philosophy as it happened through the lives of Daniel Waterhouse, Isaac Newton, Leibnitz, King William of Orange, other Kings, Dutchesses, Tramps and Vagabonds during the middle and end of the Seventeenth Century.

The writing is brilliant, erudite, compared to Pynchon, but its own kind of genius. It has a great woman heroine, a wonderful and terrible love strory, or rather several. And you will learn something of the ideas that were born in those times that changed everthing for mankind, and helps explain something about how we think and behave now.

[judih]

never read it, sounds cool. thnx