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Post by jode* on Nov 16, 2004 19:28:29 GMT
anyone read?
I'm on chapter three. quite impressed so far although not much has happened yet obviously.
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Post by jamie on Nov 21, 2004 13:27:53 GMT
Chapter 3? Which part?
Oh Mr Norrell?
I have started the Jonathan Strange bit about page 250. It's a great book and it's so well-written.
The footnotes are really detailed and very interesting.
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Post by theyreonyourhead on May 2, 2008 17:14:42 GMT
I feel like the only person in the world who couldn't really get on with this book - whenever the story gets really interesting it stops and there's another hundred-page description of a battle which just makes me lose the will to live. I realised that I was skipping huge chunks, so thought what's the point of reading it then and stopped.
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Post by jode* on May 2, 2008 17:20:17 GMT
No I agree - it was really boring. It took me about 3 months to read in the end and I haven't touched it again since this post in 2004!
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Post by Steven on Jun 30, 2008 14:51:30 GMT
Three months still feels like quite an impressive time, all things considered. I've been reading it for two months now and I've still got 350 pages to go. I quite like it, but there are definitely points where it really starts to sag. Every time the gentleman with the thistle-down hair turns up to talk to Stephen Black I find myself thinking "oh no, not again".
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Post by Intoxicated In Cockermouth on Jul 1, 2008 10:37:00 GMT
I got it for Easter when it first came out (I thought it was a chocolate egg brand).
I tried reading it- God knows I tried but it felt like reading a Blackadder The Third script without any of the laughs. I just found it a little dry.
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