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[flightypotato]

Hey, so I read this book called Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. It's really good. But long and slow-moving. But it's set in pre-Victorian times, and apparently in pre-Victorian times all the novels were long and slow-moving. It's going to be made into a film, it seems

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[kiptrip]

My sister has had that book sitting on her shelf for an age. It looks long. And big. And long. Was it a case of slaving through it or was it genuinely transfixing?

[flightypotato]

Well it was transfixing all the way through. Just - at first the pace was discouraging because everything seemed to happen very slowly, and with MASSIVE attention to detail (there are all these footnotes throughout the book where she's basically going off onto long tangents). By the end of the middle third, you could kind of see where she was heading with the whole plot, and from then on it was easy reading. The footnotes and slow pace then seemed to contribute to an overall, like, richness of the world she described rather than detracting from the story.

Yeah. And I watched the season's finale of the OC yesterday? Seth was reading that book and claiming to have been reading it for 2 months. Some geek he is - I finished it in 3 weeks. Hunh.