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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel is a huge-ass book (just over 1000 pages), which my regular readers will know means I’ve been reading it for friggin’ ages now.

Oh, I’m not done yet, either! But I’m getting close and it’s getting rather interesting, so I thought I’d tell you about it. (This is me telling you about it.)

Set in England during the war with Napoleon, when behaviors were formal and people spelled normal words oddly, this book tells the tale of two very different magicians and how they bring about the “rebirth of English magic”. I’m no Harry Potter reader, so I can’t make any comparisons (if there are any to be made), but this is a fun story overall. Some parts are a bit slow and some parts are real page turners.

The books been around forever - I know I had my eye on it for a good long while. If you’ve seen it around and thought maybe you’d like to check it out, i can definitely recommend that you do.

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1 da kine
10 months, 3 weeks ago.

I recognize the cover, so maybe my wife has it.

Speaking of weird English shit, how about the Baroque Cycle? Neal is in fine fettle with his writing, there. Any novel that contains a 5-page digression on numismatics is “A-One Supah Good!” in my estimation.
2 Jake
10 months, 3 weeks ago.

Yeah, I’m a-scared of the Baroque Cycle. Too many of ‘em and each one too damned big.
3 kinyahbrutha
10 months, 3 weeks ago.

DK, i thought that you didn’t like the baroque cycle ???
4 da kine
10 months, 3 weeks ago.

Are you mental? I loved the Baroque Cycle. It was mad pissah. I warned you to read the other Stephenson stuff first to make sure you like him before embarking on a 3000-page sojourn into the mind of a madman.