Quicksilver was actually a difficult read because a lot of the language is 17th & early 18th Century archaic.
Cryptonomicon was incredible.
The second book of the Baroque Cycle “The Confusion” is something that I am only a few pages into so far.
This fellow writes with a sort of detail and descriptiveness that I can not associate with any other writer who comes to mind.
Highly recommended.
Have you ever read Neal Stephenson’s very first book “The Big U”?
He wrote it back in 1984, It’s quite unlike any of his subsequent works.
I still have the copy I bought way back in 1984.