Hallowed Hunt is out in paperback, yay!

Also, just finished Cryptonomicon, which I loved. Though it's making me want to go back and brush up on my WWII history, particularly the Asian theatre, which I hadn't realized had gotten so vague.

Seriously, though, fabulous book. It's amazing how well the three-plus storylines intersect, and how well drawn they all are so that with each shift between them, you fall right back into that story without losing track of the rest. There were a couple of elements that felt off to me or that I had some quibbles with, but god, what a piece of work.

The parts of my brain which have been eaten by fandom are occupied with how Rodney McKay maps to Lawrence Waterhouse, but that's a story for another day.

And I'm delighted to see that the Shaftoe family (and possibly others) feature in Stephenson's next series.

brenda, I love that book. It took me nearly three months to finish, but I had become so engrossed in it by that time that I didn't want it to end. I loved the intersecting storylines and the mathematical digressions.

Yup. I'm going to take a break before I jump into the next series, but I have a feeling I'll be revisiting this one again and again.

Count me in on the Cryptonomicon love. I've tried Quicksilver twice now, with no success, though.

Hallowed Hunt is good, quite different from the other two. I have to say I really like her idea for the gods and their portfolios.

Hallowed Hunt is out in paperback, yay!

Yes! I just got my copy a few days ago. Such an interesting world. i wish it had a map included.

I really enjoyed the Baroque Cycle a lot, and it made me want to go back an re-read Cryptonomicon. It'll probably be a while though, those big loafs of book are hard to pick up again.

I would just like to state that I am forty pages from the end of The Name of the Rose, which is farther than many people who have begun the book have gotten, I am told.

I"ve read it twice, and both time were more stoppy-starty than usual for me. I like seeing how much Latin I can recall.

I tried to read Foucault's Pendulum many years ago, but gave it up. Course, this was in college, when my brilliant pre-reading strategy for any halfway philosopical text was to smoke some pot, read, and wait for flashes of enlightenment. Strangely enough, this strategy made me hungry rather than transcendent.

I"ve read it twice, and both time were more stoppy-starty than usual for me.

It's taken me longer than I anticipated. All the papal politics both bore and confuse me.

I have Foucault's Pendulum ready to start next, but I'm afraid. It seems like it might be a wee bit more exciting, though.

I found Foucault's Pendulum to be rougher going than Name of the Rose, although I liked it immensely. I'm a medieval fangirl, particularly the high weirdness that was the Church, so I was comfortable in the Rose world, but modern Italian politics and Italians were terra incognita to me. I can understand the accusations of plagarism ( Rose ) also, as Pendulum and Eco's other writings (and I've read a LOT of his stuff) seem to all come from the same author, but Rose seems like a very different author.

I read Eliot's The Wasteland at the same time I read Foucault's Pendulum, and pot would've helped with both.

One of my MA's is in Medieval Lit, so I like the papal bull. Hee.