Ebook: The system of the world

One can start just about anywhere in his writings and still be in a delicious daze of confusion (and the Con Fusion of books in System illustrates this point) for months on end. You really get your money's worth with a Stephenson work - for the second and third readings are almost as challenging and exciting as the first. He is a master of plot twists and intrigue, as well as the most inventive craftsman of character I've yet encountered. I'm besotted, to say the least.