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I failed at finishing Quicksilver by Neil Stephenson. I really like a lot of his other works (Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash, D.O.D.O., et al), but this one in particular I found too cumbersome to get through. It seems the main story/plot revolves around the fact that the author was learning about historical trivia and then tied all of these into the vicinity of a main character. To me, that's not really much of a foundation for a story unless it is combined with character arcs and developments, for example the way Forrest Gump does it is perfect - there's an actual story there that stands well on its own, it just happens to tie in with historical events.
So instead I picked up Dungeon Crawler Carl on audible after someone mentioned it here on Lemmy. Loving it so far.
Yeah, never could get into the baroque cycle von Stephenson. And he wrote at least 2 of my favourite books, Snow Crash and cryptonomicon. Reamde is also very good. But Quicksilver is just not as interesting as the premise suggests.