Jonathan Strange & Dr. Norrell

But I did enjoy reading it. I guess I hoped for more given how well handled a lot of it was. But there's no reason ever to use the word "fairy" except as a slur. It's a rule, you see. I don't enforce the rules; I just make them.

That's the only thing I found interesting at all. But you really had to read between the lines to get at it, since everything else about it was fussbudgety as all getout.

I'm about halfway through this now. It's been fun to read; I like the footnotes a lot.

i liked this book a bunch.

god "ecomplex" was kind of annoying with his fruity fonts and colours

our own baby drudge

I got about a third of the way in before I decided the returns were so diminished that there was no point in my continuing. There was certainly no indication that the style or tone (which is what was driving me crazy) would change.

this is very OTM about my experience of this book.

if you start reading a book expecting the style or tone to change, i believe you will be disappointed most of the time.

true true,

This book needed a severe editing.

Barely remember reading this now.

> if you start reading a book expecting the style or tone to change, i believe you will be disappointed most of the time.

-- s1ocki, Tuesday, March 25, 2008 4:59 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Indeed, but it happens enough that it isn't totally pointless.

Hello.

http://www.denofgeek.com/tv/jonathan-strange-mr-norrell/23665/jonathan-strange-mr-norrell-coming-to-the-bbc

haha I don't remember this book at all BTW

Then you can enjoy the series anew.

tempted to go searching for other EComplex threads to revive

haha I don't remember this book at all BTW

― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Friday, November 30, 2012 2:15 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lolll i was just thinking the exact same thing.

It keeps ending up on hold/being checked out here at the library so there's a cult of some sort.

Ha, I've had a still shrink wrapped copy of this book for, like, a decade.

i have this on my bookshelf still but barely remember a thing about it except that it took a good 2/3s of the (lengthy) book before it went all high fantasy on you

I love this book and I'm super excited about this TV show.

Read an interview with Dylan Carlson recently where he said this was his favourite ever book

Said it inspired him to start researching the faerie folk of Olde Englande iirc

incredible book

i got about 50 pages into this after it won the hugo and had to stop because the prose was like drinking a teacup full of sawdust.

omg squeee!!

love love this book! it's so hard to convince people to read it though, bcz it's so dense and ugh seeming when you start out. so many people give up :(

pvmic

I read this on a New Year's cruise iirc. I think I liked it ok. Pretty much don't remember anything about it!

Dense and ugh seeming when you first start out are some of my favorite qualities in books, seriously.

me too

Do you also like Dickens or Dickensian things? If so, I recommend The Quincunx by Charles Palliser if you haven't read it yet. It's about as dense and initially ugh seeming as you can get, plus it's historical fiction (my other favorite quality).

Plus shit like it's got five books divided into five parts divided into five chapters and a family crest of five quatrefoil roses, I mean I can just imagine Palliser sitting in a room festooned with index cards and photos and maps with everything so interconnected by pushpinned strands of yarn that nobody can get in and he can't leave and he probably still can't buy fruit unless he buys five pieces of each kind.

carl agatha, that sounds great! I carried Jonathan Strange and Dr. Norrell around in my kindle for a stupid long time but read it earlier this year - really enjoyed it, and had no idea what it was about when I finally started it.

wonder twins activate! Quincunx is one of my faves!

Great book, I've lately been thinking about re-reading it. Looking forward to the mini-series.

vg, I suspect that the Venn diagram of our interests would just be two nearly-overlapping circles.

ILX USA vg/ca FAP at the next Vegan Star Trek convention, meet you at the DS9 merch table.

Vegan Star Trek convention loool!!! I'm guessing that was meant to be Vegas? Tee hee

hahaha YES

I can't even blame autocorrect for that...

Is gagh vegan?

let's go with yes ;)

bump

first episode airs tonight on BBC America - I am excite!

However I tried to relate the plot to Mr Veg and realized I could recall almost nothing except 'erm there's these two magicians, one's kind of a dick and...."

(carl agatha: I'm still anxiously anticipating the Vegan Star Trek convention)

this was pretty great!!! the story came flooding back to me almost at once

(carl agatha: I'm still anxiously anticipating the Vegan Star Trek convention)

LOL

Chicago's convention was this weekend. I'd love to take Ivy someday but this year she was the perfect age to not enjoy it and also ruin everyone else's time.

so funny, I remember burrowing right through this and totally enjoying it, but like several others above I can't remember much of anythimg about it! huh.

we've all been glamoured

This is available on Amazon streaming, although not Prim, but since it's one of my favorite books I bought it. Only partway through the first episode but so far so good - captures the wry humor of the book really well, and Eddie Marsan is a great Mr. Norrell. I'm not as sold on J. Strange, but that's probably because I have a very specific idea of him in my head. I think I'll come to accept him in time.

he gets better, imo

i thought they did a pretty good job of squishing that huge book into a mini series
i enjoyed it alot!!

He does get better! He's fantastic. I am loving this.

SPOILER ALERTTTTTTTTT

Does he kill somebody at Waterloo in the book? I can't remember!

i have no idea

i barely remember the book :(