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Anathem is one of the best reads in years. But Quicksilver and other book in the baroque cycle is impossible to get through.
by JoachimS 12y ago
Anathem is one of the best reads in years. But Quicksilver and other book in the baroque cycle is impossible to get through.
- CWuestefeld 12y agoAgreed. For me, it seems that on a page by page basis, the writing was phenomenal - he can verbally paint a picture in a way that no one else can. But the whole Baroque Cycle seemed to lack any actual plot, as far as I could tell. I mean, stuff happened, but it wasn't stuff in the course of resolving some central tension to the story, so you had no idea what direction you were traveling in. And I just couldn't go another thousand or two pages aimlessly.