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    <body><![CDATA[Whew. About 2,700 pages later, and thank heavens it wraps up beautifully, making the long trek well worth the effort. Now that I've reached the end, I realize fully how enjoyable the journey itself was.<br/><br/>People often asked me what these books are about. Er. It's a story of alchemy (human m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18767173">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am doing this as a review for the Baroque cycle altogether, so don't bother reading the reviews for the other two if you are reading this one.<br/><br/>The Baroque cycle is a massive, epic, depressingly wide reaching body of creative work which, I believe, has made several well respected fantasy...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6380958">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This series was an ambitious project on Stephenson's part, but I think he tried to do too much. I liked the characters he created and found the plot interesting, however, the books are uneven in their pacing and sort of unfocused.  Sometimes it's a love story, sometimes it's an adventure, sometimes ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9963442">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't even know how to begin to review this trilogy.  It's really all one novel, and so it might then be the longest novel I've read.<br/><br/>It has everything.  An around the world sea voyage.  The Barbary corsairs.  Love triumphing over death.  Women trimuphing over men.  The beginnings of th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26714611">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Finished the last book in this series.   Wow, was it long.   Don't knwo that it needed to be that long.  Lots of diverse wanderings through the plot line that eventually all come together but didn't seem altogether necessary.  Instead of invoking the typical &quot;Years later&quot;, and giving a sum...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39035609">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<p>The conclusion to <em>The Baroque Cycle</em> is a veritable doorstop, but a doorstop perhaps worth its weight in 18th-century gold coins‚Äîespecially to those who need a reminder about the dangerous misuses of science and &quot;progress.&quot; Critics can't heap enough praise on Stephenson's eloquent narrati...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45459685">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first one was good, the second was better, this one ROCKED! This picks up quite a bit of time after the events of the second book (but only a few months after the opening scenes of the first book, go figure). All of the characters have moved on with their lives, but what they were doing during t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43238259">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In Quicksilver, the first book of the Baroque cycle, it isn't obvious where Stephenson is going.  That book is an enjoyable read, to be sure, but I never would have guessed Stephenson's ambition with these novels is to explain how the world we live today came about, where the scientific method rules...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69903082">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I finally finished the Baroque Cycle (after what felt like several decades). Throughout my struggle to finish the 2000+ page trilogy I found myself continually wondering why I was still plowing through. Yes, there were great characters, and yes, Stephenson has an amazing way with dialogue (IMHO one ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63669125">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a beautiful trilogy that is trying at times. I don't know if the series deserves 5 stars, but this, the third novel of the trilogy, certainly deserves more than 4. I loved it. It may be partially due to the sense of accomplishment one gets at the end of this book for having read the entire s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41572482">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I stuck with the Baroque Cycle mostly for bragging rights, not because it was fun reading.  It was educational, and like an education, when it was over, I was left with a void to fill by some other means.  The ending was well resolved in a feel good way but I could not believe that the King of the V...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39983504">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This Baroque Cycle is an enjoyable read. Because it is composed of three large books, many readers seem intimidated. But it reads like a series of smaller books featuring the same characters.<br/><br/>It is, also, really reads like an historical fiction in most all ways.<br/><br/>However, there ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64202773">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is really more like a 3.5 stars for me - the first two books in the Baroque Cycle I thought were better with the second book &quot;The Confusion&quot; being closest to a 5 star.  Stephenson throws out a whole slew of threads and brings them pretty satisfactorily together regarding:  commerce, a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41333698">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, I'm now officially depressed.  I finished reading the Baroque Cycle.  To say that I enjoyed reading the series would be to stretch the word &quot;enjoyed&quot; to the breaking point.  It would be rolling the word &quot;enjoyed&quot; off to the juicing room.  It would be hanging the word &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69576344">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I must admit, I breathed a sigh of relief as I finished the last page in this book, the end of a long trilogy, The Baroque Cycle, by Neal Stephenson. <br/><br/>The third book, The System of the World, was better than the first two...I finally felt like there was some payoff for going through the o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59471263">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I absolutely loved these books, and as glad as I was to finally finish them, a part of me wishes the story was a lot longer too. There were a few things I would have done differently (Jack and Eliza's reunion, for one--I felt this was one of the climaxes the series was building to, and it only gets ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49404195">more...</a>]]></body>
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