Stephenson's Baroque Cycle

[Cometman]

>Has anyone here read it in full? How does
> it compare with Mason & Dixon (admitedly set some years later but
> dealing with some similar subject matter)?
> 
> Thanks,
> David Gentle 
> 

I liked it.  I liked Mason & Dixon better.  
Mason & Dixon: a departure for Pynchon - I think - in going further
toward magical realism than any of his other books.  I think it's
because it's set further in the past and told as to a family in a
parlor by a roguish relative free to take liberties with the tale.  

Stephenson: although he doesn't have Pynchon's lyricism (but, my God -
who does?) he has some moving and beautiful things to relate. 
Wonderful plotting.  I won't spoil it for you.