MacGuffin
22 Sep 2004, 03:35 PM
Just curious if anyone has read this recent trilogy (includes "Quicksilver," "The Confusion," & "The System of the World." You could even throw in the prequel "Cryptonomicon.")
I have not, but this seems right up the INTP's alley. It takes place during the Enlightenment and covers (taken from a Salon.com review): the
birth of modern finance, biology and chemistry; transition from monarchy to representative government; alchemical search for eternal life, et cetera - I'd add mathematics and physics from the reviews I've read. It though, is ultimately about how the universe works and whether there is room for God in it.
Two real life people figure prominently in the work: Gottfried Leibniz & Isaac Newton. But this is a work of fiction and there are plenty of conspiracies and swashbuckling adventure. The trilogy is something like over 3000 pages, and is one big reason while I haven't tackled it (all three books have come out over the last year or so). Just wondering if anyone has read them or part of them, they seem very interesting.
The latest review I read: The summit of Mount Stephenson (http://www.salon.com/tech/books/2004/09/22/system/index.html)
I have not, but this seems right up the INTP's alley. It takes place during the Enlightenment and covers (taken from a Salon.com review): the
birth of modern finance, biology and chemistry; transition from monarchy to representative government; alchemical search for eternal life, et cetera - I'd add mathematics and physics from the reviews I've read. It though, is ultimately about how the universe works and whether there is room for God in it.
Two real life people figure prominently in the work: Gottfried Leibniz & Isaac Newton. But this is a work of fiction and there are plenty of conspiracies and swashbuckling adventure. The trilogy is something like over 3000 pages, and is one big reason while I haven't tackled it (all three books have come out over the last year or so). Just wondering if anyone has read them or part of them, they seem very interesting.
The latest review I read: The summit of Mount Stephenson (http://www.salon.com/tech/books/2004/09/22/system/index.html)