![]() ![]() Once I got past all the “chuse” (!), “shewed”(!!!) and “sopha” (!!!) iterations, I still had to try to process the glacial pace and meandering nature of the story - and although I’m very partial to meanderings of Stephen King, here I just wanted so badly to get to any kind of a point, hoping for an editor’s red pen to trim some of the vignettes and descriptions. It’s a period piece with magic, I suppose.īut you see, I enjoy some 19th century novels *despite* them being such, not *because* of it. ![]() In Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Susanna Clarke decided to emulate the style, the pace and the vocabulary/orthography of that time in a way that would have made Charles Dickens proud. I suppose whether you love this book or hate it will depend on how you feel about 19th century novels. ![]()
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