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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.

Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Thu Jan 09, 2014 10:11 pm

Has anyone else here read this novel? It's a kind of alternative historical novel, set in a version of Victorian England where magic is commonplace. And it's bloody brilliant!

Well, I just found out that a TV adaptation has been made by the BBC and should be aired this year. I haz an excite! :hyper:
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Re: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.

Post by Clinton Huxley » Thu Jan 09, 2014 10:15 pm

A chap recommended it to me when it came out. I read about 30 pages and got bored and stopped but that's probably just me.
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Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Thu Jan 09, 2014 10:18 pm

Clinton Huxley wrote:A chap recommended it to me when it came out. I read about 30 pages and got bored and stopped but that's probably just me.
You should try again. It takes a while to get used to the style of her writing - bit once you do, it grips you. At least, it did me.
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Post by Audley Strange » Thu Jan 09, 2014 10:50 pm

Yes, I thought it was superb.
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Post by Bella Fortuna » Thu Jan 09, 2014 11:02 pm

Read it and listened to it when it came out - fantastic book.

I bet we won't get the production over here though. :sulk:
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Re: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.

Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Thu Jan 09, 2014 11:11 pm

Bella Fortuna wrote:Read it and listened to it when it came out - fantastic book.

I bet we won't get the production over here though. :sulk:
Apparently, you will. BBC America is on board. :tup:

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Post by Bella Fortuna » Thu Jan 09, 2014 11:15 pm

One step closer... now I have to find someone with cable... :plot:
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Post by HomerJay » Thu Jan 09, 2014 11:38 pm

Bella Fortuna wrote:One step closer... now I have to find someone with cable... :plot:
I haz cable, I can send you a few feet?
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Post by Bella Fortuna » Fri Jan 10, 2014 12:01 am

HomerJay wrote:
Bella Fortuna wrote:One step closer... now I have to find someone with cable... :plot:
I haz cable, I can send you a few feet?
Yes. :lynch:
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Post by Ayaan » Sun Jan 12, 2014 8:22 am

Discovered that I had $10 more dollars in gift cards from Barnes & Noble, so I bought this Saturday. Plan on starting it Sunday.
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Post by Ayaan » Mon Jan 13, 2014 7:31 am

Only 160 pages in and finding it quite good. Hate that I have to go back to work Monday. Too bad the need to work so we can pay for such trifles as food, clothing, and shelter has to cut into my reading time. :lay:
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Post by orpheus » Mon Jan 13, 2014 8:37 am

Haven't read it myself, but I recall Neal Stephenson saying he liked it. (I hope I'm not misrepresenting him.) Also Mrs. Orph liked it a lot. I'm going to add it to my precariously tall stack of books to read.
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Post by Bella Fortuna » Mon Jan 13, 2014 2:04 pm

orpheus wrote:precariously tall stack of books to read.
I have one of those!!!
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Post by Svartalf » Mon Jan 13, 2014 2:23 pm

So do I, and I can't concentrate on doing it :cry:
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Post by Audley Strange » Mon Jan 13, 2014 10:27 pm

orpheus wrote:Haven't read it myself, but I recall Neal Stephenson saying he liked it. (I hope I'm not misrepresenting him.) Also Mrs. Orph liked it a lot. I'm going to add it to my precariously tall stack of books to read.
Yeah its the sort of thing he might have written instead of The Baroque Cycle. If he was into English myths rather than the history of computing. You should read it, you'd get a kick out of it, I think.
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