Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell discussion thread - No spoilers until 28 March, please

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A number of us over on 50-Book Challenge thread are interested in reading Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by 28 March. Everyone is welcome to join in, and feel free to start posting, but please refrain from spoilers until 28 March. Enjoy

Signing in :)

Signing in!

me too!

My younger son bought this book years ago, read it, then gave it to me to read
It took me ages and i found it compelling but really hard going at times
If you start now then you may actually finish it by 28th March

I've tried to read this a couple of times but always hit a roadblock and end up on something else.

Will give it another go.

I read it years ago always hoped for a tv/movie adaptation and now have forgotten most of it so will be like I've never read it! Do recall it was hard work but really enjoyed it In the end

Hurrah. Signing in too for a mega read

I'm in.

Signing in...trying to work out how long it will take me to read though

What's a similar sized book?

It is long and magnificent. I savoured every page of it and grieved when it ended. This will be a good excuse to read it again

Make sure you read the footnotes. Much of the story is in there.

The Bible, Clash - that's why we're giving ourselves a really long time to read it :o

The only other really long book I know is The Goldfinch, which is almost 900 pages, 140 pages shorter than JS & M.N.

ClashCityRocker -
similar - The Goldfinch,
slightly shorter The Luminaries
even longer are 1Q84 and The Crimson Petal and the White

'This Thing of Darkness' 768 pages

'The Stand' 1348 pages

Two of my favourites. :)

I was looking at how long are books on Audible - that may not correspond to the actual pages though

"The Bible"

Remus - I didn't realise The Stand was that long. It doesn't feel like it.

Tentatively in. I don't get a lot of reading time so hesitant. Forgot about the bloody footnotes

Looked up when it was published - 2004 - I have the hardback so must have been 10 years ago I attempted it last

I did have a lot on then.

High time for another go I guess

Was being flippant - my paperback copy is 1006 pages long. Really looking forward to this.

I loved this book and read it in about 2 days flat. Am surprised that some parts were considered hard going. Although I found The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out Of A Window And Disappeared really hard work and I gave up, so who am I to be surprised

Figster, you may be interested in this

Oh that's not too long then! So game of thrones sort of length?

I do like a good long book, provided I manage to 'immerse' myself in it. My last few books have been quite short as I didn't want anything overinvolving due to work pressures.

Have downloaded onto kindle, will start after the tax deadline!

I have carted this book from one end of the country to the next and still not read it.

This is the only book that I have more or less given up on

It did cross my mind to go back to it when I heard about the tv adaptation, but meh.

1Q84 - 812
The Luminaries - 849
The Crimson Petal and the White - 922

remus the stand is one of my favourites too apart from the bloody ending

If it's a good book, the length shouldn't matter, I think.

According to Amazon, Cote - I haven't checked my copy. It was initally published in a slightly shortened version then his uber-original-version released later.