Glenn Reynold’s review of Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle trilogy of novels is online. Go and read the whole thing, but in summation, Reynolds opines:
One cannot help but feel, after reading the long passage in which the princess, Newton, and Leibniz discuss the matter, that things did not work out as well as they might have. Stephenson’s novels address topics that remain the burning issues of our age. And they do so in a highly entertaining fashion. So long as you are not expecting Cryptonomicon all over again, you’ll find Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle one of the great reads of the year.
I’m still plugging my way through the second book and hope to have it finished soon, only to start on the monstrous third book in the trilogy. I’m psyched. *grin*
