A Short Review of 'A Conspiracy of Paper' by David Liss

[brigdh]

I liked this book better when it was called The Baroque Cycle and Neal Stephenson wrote it.

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[redstapler.livejournal.com]

Snerk.

[darkelf105.livejournal.com]

Lol.

[cellophane_ria.livejournal.com]

:-]

[b-hallward.livejournal.com]

*snicker*

[miep.livejournal.com]

*snort*

I had to stop reading Quicksilver when he kept describing experiements on dogs. I just couldn't take it any more.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, that was pretty bad. If it encourages you to go on, there are no more dog experiments after than section. He does, however, describe several kidney-stone-removal-without-anesthetic surgeries on humans, later.

[askeladden.livejournal.com]

Bladder stone.

(Sorry for the pedantry. I just loved the image of the tennis-ball-sized stone Sam Pepys kept in his pocket, with the two little horns from where it had extended into his ureters. Still, that scene when they extracted it from Daniel was pretty @&*# intense. Whee!)

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Oh, you're right! If I had things removed from my insides, I might carry them around and show them to strangers, too.

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[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

Neal Stephenson wrote it too? Hey, I might try reading his version! I'd be so much less likely to toss it across the room, cursing, before I was half way through it.

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[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Neal Stephenson's version is not only better written, but it includes pirates, Louis XIV, a gay Isaac Newton, samurais, island queens, harem slaves, and many other cool things. But the basic theme of "the invention of paper money/the stockmarket causes radical changes in how the world works/how people perceive themselves" remains the same.