Stephen's review
The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 2)
by Neal Stephenson
Stephen's review
The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 2) by Neal Stephenson
Stephen's review
rating:
A review won't really help most people, except those that gave Quicksilver a shot and were bored by the end of it. The Confusion might as well be titled, Jack and Eliza's Picaresque Adventures, and while Stephenson maintains the random forays into explaining 17th century monetary systems, the complicated workings of Versaille, or hierarchies of Indian monarchs, this book is an adventure novel at heart that just happens to require 900+ pages of backstory to appreciate. The novel follows a trip around the world for an infamous treasure and devious machinations of French politics. Quicksilver is the lazy river to The Confusion's roller coaster.
