Tour de force

I have been following the development of Neal Stephenson, and have read all his books (yes i tend to get a bot obsessed with authors i like). They have become better all the time. Cryptonomicon was quite a read, and the Baroque Cycle is one better. It is popular history, vivid imagination, sharp language skills, and a keen sense of details, all wrappep together in a lot of pages. The scope is so large it is almost breathtaking, and i lived in this cycle for quite some timne. Now i have left them all behind me, and feel the poorer for it. Sure you have to invest your time, but the payoff is more than satisfying. There is something about the smoothness is his writing that gets to me.
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