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Old 01-11-2010, 10:24 AM   #11
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I did it, I did it, I did it!!! I finished the Baroque Cycle!!!!!!!
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And did you like it?
Yes, actually, I did. All 2,760 pages. I loved that it was a cyberpunk novel set prior to the Industrial Revolution. and the American and French revolutions, for that matter. I didn't like The Confusion as much as I did Quicksilver and The System of the World ... felt the story bogged down in the middle, all that sailing and pirating ... strangely I found Eliza's chapters more exciting ... and she was just busy engaging in economics.

Currently reading The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night-Time - Mark Haddon

Came in a bag of donated books. I'm "screening" it for the unit. I didn't know anything about it before I started, but it's very interesting.
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