reading matters

[Michael Bailey]

System of the World was the name of the trilogy and of the 3rd book, wasn't it?

Pretty good stuff, if you ask me.

The beginning of _Snow Crash_, in fact the whole book is about as much
fun as a book can be.  Stevenson is the shit.

System of the World has both sentens and solas, imho.

However, in my personal qabalah, it'd be Pynchon at Kether,
Stevenson @ Chokmah, Gibson @ Binah...




On 8/5/08, Graham Croft <grahamcroft at mac.com> wrote:
> http://januarymagazine.com/fiction/quicksilver.html
>
>  This is link to a 2003 review of the first book of a trilogy that came out
> some time ago set i the early days of the formation of the Royal Society and
> written by Neal Stevenson.
>
>  Like Pynchon this guy comes from a science rather than a lit background and
> his portrait of Newton is a delight - though his optical experiments require
> a strong stomach. The books suggest an obsessive delight in research (though
> as I don't share this myself I'm guessing as to the accuracy of the historic
> architecture; what ~I do know of the period meshes) and a real feel for the
> minutiae of circumstance - one of the many things that make Gravity's
> Rainbow such a prodigiously believable excursion into a landscape of mania.
>
>  Newton's fascination with and respect for the occult sciences gets a proper
> hearing here, and the portrayal of the academic and governmental politics of
> the time should satisfy the most demanding paranoia.
>
>  And if you like the first one - there are two more.
>
>


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