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scarletohhara's review
4.0
What a delightful book this is! Set in a parallel universe, Babbage and Lovelace are ninjas solving world problems with their Difference Engine! Amazing setup, drawings and great research. Perfect for a geek or computer nerd too!
spinstah's review against another edition
I kind of fizzled out on this. Not sure what it was - seems like it's right in my wheelhouse - but this just didn't keep my interest quite enough.
jenlouisegallant's review
3.0
So at first, I tried to read all the footnotes and extras that came with the actual comics but eventually found those to be too much. I enjoy the historical aspect of the authors and people, but I just couldn't get into the mathematical and scientific aspects of the book. I'm not a huge fan of math. I did, however, love the funny little events that Babbage and Lovelace got into in this Pocket Dimension.
k80bowman's review
5.0
Footnotes! So many wonderful, glorious, entertaining footnotes! Also, it was fun to read given that I am currently learning how to program computers myself.
eliza_bangert's review
4.0
I couldn't make it through all the appendices, but the rest was very interesting!
quietdomino's review
3.0
This book perfectly captures all the hilarious and odd things that come out of the Victorian archives, but seems to have rather a lot of footnotes for the civilian non-specialist.
balletbookworm's review
5.0
I'd give it 5 stars simply for the complicated drawings Sydney Padua did of the Engine in the Appendix.
Beyond that, this is a lovely biography-cum-steampunk crime-fighting duo tale complete with a chapter involving George Eliot. And GREAT footnotes.
Beyond that, this is a lovely biography-cum-steampunk crime-fighting duo tale complete with a chapter involving George Eliot. And GREAT footnotes.