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Original Title:	The Confusion
ISBN:	0060733357 (ISBN13: 9780060733353)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Baroque Cycle #2
Characters:	Eliza, Jack Shaftoe, Enoch Root, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle #2)

Neal Stephenson

Paperback | Pages: 815 pages

Rating: 4.26 | 21708 Users | 685 Reviews

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Title	:	The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle #2)
Author	:	Neal Stephenson
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 815 pages
Published	:	June 14th 2005 by William Morrow Paperbacks (first published April 13th 2004)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Science Fiction. Fantasy

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In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, aka King of the Vagabonds, aka Half-Cocked Jack -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues -- a perilous race for an enormous prize of silver ... nay, gold ... nay, legendary gold.

In Europe, the exquisite and resourceful Eliza, Countess de la Zeur, is stripped of her immense personal fortune by France's most dashing privateer. Penniless and at risk from those who desire either her or her head (or both), she is caught up in a web of international intrigue, even as she desperately seeks the return of her most precious possession.

Meanwhile, Newton and Leibniz continue to propound their grand theories as their infamous rivalry intensifies, stubborn alchemy does battle with the natural sciences, dastardly plots are set in motion ... and Daniel Waterhouse seeks passage to the Massachusetts colony in hopes of escaping the madness into which his world has descended.

This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

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Ratings: 4.26 From 21708 Users | 685 Reviews

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Oh my god if I read any more tedious exposition I'm going to find you and throw this book at you. And it's big, it'll hurt. It'd be a lot smaller if you just told the story. Oh, and now you skip the part of the story with the action just so you can tell me what happened in more tedious exposition? Fuck You Neal Stephenson, I used to like you!

Whats the opposite of writers block? Verbal diarrhea? That seems appropriate given Stephensons fondness for infodumps and using 1,000 words where 1 would do. This book, like all of his others, is bloated and irritatingly verbose, but damn good despite that. It takes a long time to get into and, many times, I wanted to quit, but couldnt. What saves it in the end is the story which is, for some reason fascinating and captivating, and the dialogues, which move the story along at a brisk pace when

I sometimes think Neal Stephenson novels are fit only for college professors, especially business professors, with a need for astronomic levels of excitement, but since this category includes *me* I love this series. The form of the novels reminds me of a baroque and convoluted Candide - a picaresque in which philosophical speculation trades places back and forth with big-time all-star adventure - burning ships, mistaken identities, kidnappings, mounds and piles of gold, murderous Jesuits, etc.

Fantastic book! As long as _Quicksilver_, this book feels shorter. There is less natural philosophy and more swashbuckling (including a complete circumnavigation of the globe). There's a bit about the alchemical properties of King Solomon's gold and some pre-Enlightenment chemical engineering. Additionally, there is a significant amount of banking, as many of the events in the book orbit the disintegration of the traditional feudal land economy of Europe and the rise to dominance of a market

What on earth did I just read? I'm still not sure but it was a great romp, sometimes with read-aloud astonishment, with money, alchemy, piracy, intrigue, princesses, queens, battles, the Inquisition, and stunning reversals all playing a role, along with historical figures such as Newton, Leibniz, and Peter the Great. I haven't digested this much detail on trading since reading Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 1: The Structures of Everyday Life and the 2 other volumes by

The Confusion is a typical second book of an atypical trilogy, and that is not at all a criticism. The second book of trilogies always bridge the gap between the first and the last with a focus on character, plot development and building the framework for the payoff. When this is done well, as with The Two Towers, the second installment can hold its own with any installment in the trilogy; when this is done very well, as with Empire Strikes Back (I apologize for the movie reference), it can