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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey
Baroque Cycle. Excellent, though some of the swashbuckling sometimes feels a bit farfetched.
The swashbuckling bits feel very Hollywood; and might inspire very good movie scenes. Unfortunately, as the series is so long and complicated, they would probably result in very good scenes in a mess of a movie.
But I do like the exploration of the beginnings of science and modern finance.
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Originally Posted by glatt
I actually learned a fair amount of history from those books. Put stuff into a perspective I had never had before. For example, I never knew much about the Barbary pirates before.
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I agree with both of you. I'd like to see lots of those scenes on the screen, I enjoyed them immensely in my head.
I've only completed Quicksilver, not the last six (two? I get confuzeld). It is a lot of reading.