The Baroque Cycle Reading Group Thread

[hiccup]

I seem to be missing some words

at the bottom of page 92 of my copy of Quicksilver, the sentence ends

"...he's staring into his plate, watching the gravy slosh with the ships heaving (a microcosm of the Atlantic?) and all of a sudden it's"

it's? it's what?

A few pages on, and several decades past, Denial mentions his family's crockery and it's unique design, so I assume that's what he saw under his stew. Can anyone fill me in on what words are missing from my copy?

 

[Santino]

I seem to be missing some words

at the bottom of page 92 of my copy of Quicksilver, the sentence ends

"...he's staring into his plate, watching the gravy slosh with the ships heaving (a microcosm of the Atlantic?) and all of a sudden it's"

it's? it's what?

A few pages on, and several decades past, Denial mentions his family's crockery and it's unique design, so I assume that's what he saw under his stew. Can anyone fill me in on what words are missing from my copy?

The unfinished sentence is completed by the title of the next chapter:

and all of a sudden it's...

The Plague Year, 1665.

The same thing happened back on pages 23-24.



You bloody idiot.

 

[hiccup]

Oh, I see.

Well.

Don't I feel silly.

 

[gsv]

Cryptonomicon = teh w00T!

The Barock Cycle is fashioned from too many wordes, which contrives to make a most excellente Larke and Digressionne a bit fucking boringe.

GS(v)

 

[Santino]

Read the bit last night when Daniel visits his uncle, Richard Ham, and there's a digression on how goldsmiths were becoming repositories of gold rather than actual makers of anything. Anyway, the house has a sign that says 'Ham Bros', or rather Hambros.

 

[Santino]

Just read the bit where Daniel visits Newton during the Plague Year. He's in Isaac's mum's room, where Isaac was born, and sees

the first things that Isaac had laid eyes upon (the window and the orchard)

Nice little reference to the two stand-out achievements of Newton's science, the theory of optics (window) and the theory of gravity (orchard/apple).

 

[hiccup]

Page 164:

Spoiler: omg

Pirates!

 

[Santino]

Van Hoek has a hoek for a hand lol

 

[Santino]

I'm trying to match up the fictional characters in the CABAL with the real ones.

 

[Santino]

Have finished the first part of Quicksilver, namely, er, Quicksilver, and am now on King of the Vagabonds.

Second time around, knowing where the story is going, I enjoyed Quicksilver much more. I understand the politics much better, and it was just pleasurable to wallow in the history of the Royal Society and Natural Philosophy.




hiccup's camping so I expect no reply.

 

[kyser_soze]

tl:dr

 

[kabbes]

I've finished the book I was reading when you started this thread and I'm half way through the book I had intended to read next. When I finish that, I might start on Quicksilver. Saying that, there was originally another one lined up to follow my current read.

 

[Santino]

I've finished the book I was reading when you started this thread and I'm half way through the book I had intended to read next. When I finish that, I might start on Quicksilver. Saying that, there was originally another one lined up to follow my current read.

Great story, kabbes.

 

[The Groke]

I adore Cryptonimicon and Diamond Age.

Snow Crash is "good"

I have owned all three volumes of the Baroque Cycle for some time now; I can feel their glowering weight distorting time and space around the left hand side of the bookshelf every time I go into the room.



I started - foolishly - on a plane journey and got distracted then lost, then became too On Holiday to finish.

I must go back and read them again. I might join you shortly, but I still have 2 Erickson books to read as well.

 

[The Groke]

Oh! It's You!

I was wondering who the fuck this Santino person was.

 

[hiccup]

Have finished the first part of Quicksilver, namely, er, Quicksilver, and am now on King of the Vagabonds.

Second time around, knowing where the story is going, I enjoyed Quicksilver much more. I understand the politics much better, and it was just pleasurable to wallow in the history of the Royal Society and Natural Philosophy.




hiccup's camping so I expect no reply.

I too am now well into book 2. Didn't get as much read as I thought I would while I was away, but I'm glad Jack's got his sword

When Eliza is telling Jack stories about her past, there was a reference to air fresheners shaped like trees. Heh.

 

[DotCommunist]

2 Erickson books to read as well.

just re-reading Toll The Hounds

Fuck neal for now- I have chunky fantasy

 

[Santino]

Jack just one of the Enormously Cool Things that he does every so often.

 

[The Groke]

Jack just one of the Enormously Cool Things

accidentally?

 

[Santino]

It was kind of accidental, this one.

 

[Santino]

I was one minor tube delay away from finishing King of the Vagabonds this morning.

 

[hiccup]

I have just declined a lunch invitation so I can read more later today.

 

[Santino]

Finished it.

Onto 'Odalisque' now, which I seem to remember being inordinately made up of correspondence between various characters.

 

[Santino]

Read the first proper scene with the grown-up Bob Shaftoe. First time I read it

Spoiler: the rest of the Cycle

I wasn't sure whether Jack would ever re-appear and it would be Bob all the way thereafter.

 

[hiccup]

*bump*

Just started reading these again