Johnathan strange and Mr Norrell

[lucyellensmum]

Phew - what an effort, 100 pages to go

I really liked it.

just me then?

I had to give up on it. I just couldn't get into it.

impossible to read. confusing and unengaging and rambly.

I loved it! didn't want it to end.

perhaps its the rabliness that i liked, im a total "why say it in one word when i can use 29" person. Most of the people i have spoken to didnt like it. I find classics hard to get into, sot it cant be that it is intellectual or anything. I did struggle to get into it, but just sort of chuntered along.

It took a while to get through but really enjoyed it.

I also enjoyed it

ive finished it now - found the ending a bit disappointing (but then i always do), perhaps i missed something because i am not sure if the raven kings identity was ever revealed, or who the gentleman with the thistledown hair was - was Stephen the raven king after all? It sort of just ended mid story i felt, perhaps there will be a sequel. I always miss important bits of the plot, tis usually because i'm beyond knackered when i get chance to read . And what was the deal with the foot notes, were they based on "fact" or just made up for the story, i mean, i know its true that St Antony helps you find things, no really, it works. But you have to be desperate. I might be really sad later and look on the website.

Oh I didn't like this. I am ashamed to admit I gave up half way through (only one of two books I've never managed to finish). It was so slow.

I loved it. Read it about 4 times.

LEM I saw this yesterday but didn't have a chance to post, so I've looked it up specifically just to say:

I LOVED THIS BOOK!!!

I made EVERYONE I know read it, and most of them couldn't be doing with it for the same reasons as fishie. TBH, I don't really remember what happened and I certainly can't answer your questions about the plot but I'm fairly sure I decided that the foot-notes are part of the story, like the historical notes in The Handmaid's Tale if you've read that.

LEM, sure there was another thread on this recently.... someone about 100 pages in asking for people to let her know there was a reason to persevere. And people definitely replied!

I loved it. Itching to re-read it but too much else to read first.

Oh, I was going to post, and then realized that I'd got the book confused with another one of similar title.

Lucy, the book you're discussing is a really big one, isn't it?

flossie - that was me! and yes, desi, it was really big, gave me arm ache I dont think it will go in my list of books to re read although i hardly ever re read, hardly get time to read!

Glad you stayed the course though, lucyellensmum! I really enjoyed it, although it did start to go a bit haywire somewhere around the final battle, I thought.

yes i felt it went with a fizzle rather than a bang, and unresolved things annoy me. Probably why i can keep an argument with DP going and going and going and going

The book im reading now has 265 pages

With decent-sized print too, I hope

I loved this book it's ages since I rea dit though may have to read it again!

funny you should say that flossie, i meant to post, "with big letters"!!! I have a book on my shelf that im putting off because it has small typeface. My eyes cant take the strain

I've just read A Thousand Splendid Suns obviously a completely different read but it was fab.

well..i've finished it and its still to make sense . But it was very enjoyable. It does make sense really but i never really found myself on anyones side. I did enjoy it, i think because it is well written, even if it does waffle, but i am the queen of waffle me.

Wow - Loved it (although agree that the ending fizzled out a bit).

I have to admit that I would have given up after the first few pages if I'd been reading it myself but DH read it out loud to DS1 when I was pregnant with him. He used to kick and wriggle about excitedly as soon as the story started.

It took practically the whole nine months to get through it! For the final few weeks we did the Da Vinci Code. DS1 didn't get nearly as excited and when reading it aloud you realise that its not very well written.

Thats soooo lovely sparkly, my DP isnt a great reader in fact i used to read to him but he would always fall asleep - wish it would have the same effect on DD!!!

Ive read a couple of Dan brown books and whilst very easy to read, i think they were not particularly well written and am actually a bit about the problems he seems to have with the catholic church - not just in the da vinci code, which to be honest, i coudlnt understand what the big deal was about. I found his work poorly researched, or at least thats how they appeared, i know nothing of the subject matter, and superficial to be honest. Hark at me, book critic - like i know anything