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The Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard
- The Light Years
- Marking Time
- Confusion
- Casting Off
3 Came Home by A. N. Keith (a true story)
The Children's War by Monique Charlesworth ... print, or even hear about them in some way, shape, or form.
Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle trilogy (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World) are all easily over nine hundred pages and all quite wonderful for the historical-fiction-magical-realism-etc. people of the ... Next by Michael Crichton
Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds - thought I'd give it a try
The Confusion by Neal Stephenson - been hearing some good rumblings
Ten Big Ones by Janet Evanovich - been listening to them on CD and find them hilarious.
All hard covers bought at a ... ... the second, so is sometimes separable if people put the number in the title field, but Quicksilver is a real problem), and The Confusion is three different works (the second volume of the 3-volume Baroque Cycle and the fourth and fifth volumes of the 8-volume edition - those usually have ... philosojerk (#2)--I really liked Cryptonomicon as well. Have you read Stephenson's Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World)? A big time commitment, but well worth it, in my opinion. ... read Cryptonomicon before. Both are 900+ tomes. But if you like them you have two more 900+ page books to follow up with (Confusion and System of the World) ;-) ... of Her Regard is set around the lives of Byron, Shelley et al. The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson Quicksilver, The Confusion and The System of the World are clearly historical in setting and have fantasy elements too.
(Not sure why Neal Stephenson's name doesn't link out to his ... For All the Wrong Reasons by Louise Bagshawe
Confusion by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
The Remorseful Day by Colin Dexter
Whispers and Lies by Joy Fielding So... like r_f said somewhere up there in the message stratosphere I really enjoyed Quicksilver (and Confusion and The System of the World... and Cryptonomicon /which accidentally got me into reading a couple of pop science books on crypto + crypto history.../).
So, all great minds are not ... ... "the best" - Pashazade, Effendi & Felaheen + Stamping Butterflies; Snowcrash + Cryptonomicon and Quicksilver, Confusion & The System of the World; Left Hand of Darkness + Dispossessed + ...; The Foreigner : a novel of first contact Universe books...
As books go Childhood ... My books are all packed for a move, but here're a few:
Cryptonomicon (and The Confusion) by Neal Stephenson
Things that Fall from the Sky by Kevin Brockmeier
McGee and Stuckey's The Bountiful Container by Rose Marie Nichols McGee for gardening stuff
Watership Down by Ri ... ... disagree on Neal Stephenson - while Snow Crash is excellent I think the quadruple of Cryptonomicon, Quicksilver, Confusion and The System of the World is great reads. But I deliberately left them out in my former post as books +900 pages each is, well... if you don't like them it's ... ... than half of them
Pashazade - Effendi - Felaheen
Snow Crash
The Diamond Age
Cryptonomicon
Quicksilver - Confusion - The System of the World
The earthsea trilogy - Tehanu
Worlds of Exile and Illusion
Quite a few books from my youth -
The sands of Mars
Earthl ... ... of the alternate history or steampunk or hard sf varieties... Neal Stephenson and his Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, The System of the World), including Cryptonomicon; Jon Courtenay Grimwood and his Arabesque Cycle (Pashazade, Effendi, Felaheen) + his End of ... ... to develop... For added depth, IF you liked Crypto when your through it I'd recommend tha Baroque cycle (Quicksilver, Confusion & The System of the World). It is kind of related ;-)
I'd add that I share your view that this is not SF. There are those that consider the Baroque cycle "ste ... ... writing too. Personally I *loathed* Quicksilver but my history of science is good enough that I was bored reading it, but The Confusion and The System of the World were well worth it. Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson (Quicksilver + The Confusion + The System of the World)
All fun and games until somebody loses an eye by Christopher Brookmyre
Coloring Outside the Lines by Roger Schank
and one kept in reserve, ... ... of Oz for comparison. Let's just say I won't be reading anything by Maguire any time soon.
Now I'm starting in on The Confusion by Neal Stephenson for the second time.
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