#47 in Historical fiction
The Confusion
- 815
- Pages
- about 15 h
- Reading time
- Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
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About the book
The Confusion is a novel by Neal Stephenson. It is the second volume in The Baroque Cycle and consists of two sections or books, Bonanza and The Juncto. In 2005, The Confusion won the Locus Award, together with The System of the World, also by Stephenson.
Reading order · The Baroque Cycle
Full order & progress →- QuicksilverStart here
7.77.7 / 10 - The ConfusionThis book
8.28.2 / 10 - The System of the World
8.28.2 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.3 across 208 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 58% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Historical fiction average of 8.0. That is how 8.2 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.0 | 27 | 13% |
| Hardcover | 8.4 | 181 | 87% |
Reader voices
The most-liked reviews on Hardcover (credited to their authors).
“Highlights the central theme of this series - More intricate plotting, letters, and conversations in this Baroque Cycle. I was appreciative they combined these two books into one. This book highlights one of the central themes of the overall series being the change from hard…”
“I picked up and put down Quicksilver over the course of a few years... Books of that physical size tend to intimidate me, so I was in no hurry to start The Confusion.. But once I got an ebook reader the physical size was no…”
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It has 815 pages — longer than 86% of the ranked books in Historical fiction.
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