Quicksilver

This could have been such a good book. Interesting historical period, good premise, etc. I am still questioning myself why it did not appeal to me... I really really wanted to like it! However, it was such a pain to read it. Especially the first and the third part where the characters were mostly thinking about theories. Any suspense was killed by boredom. All the amazing ideas, a trademark of Stephenson, were lost in between the lines of endless gobbledygook. I did not finish reading it, stopping around 200 pages from the end. I can now dedicate it to a more enjoyable book.