A review by ajmaybe
The Confusion by Neal Stephenson

4.0

I find that I can't really review The Confusion separately from the rest of Baroque Cycle. This was even more the case for The Confusion than it was for Quicksilver, because it is very difficult to imagine how it would be for a reader who has not read that first book of the three. The best I can do is give it a four-star rating, meaning that I really enjoyed this thousand-page book alone, and is interesting and probably worth reading, but alone, it may or may not permanently alter your brain and enrich your perceptions and experiences of the world. In contrast, the three-book Baroque Cycle is definitely worth reading and, if you can get through it, *will* permanently alter your brain and enrich your perceptions and experiences of the world (that's my primary criterion for a five-star rating).