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The Half-Bound World
Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle and Cryptonomicon
• March 1, 2007
• 5,500 Words • Leave a Comment
In his invaluable Reader's Manifesto, literary critic B.R. Myers, skewering current literary fads, offers a spoof list of rules for serious writers. Rule II is: I naturally had Myers' mock precept in mind when approaching Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle — three damned, thick, square books weighing in at a total of over 2,600 pages. My... Read More
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