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Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell . Magicians (with real magic) in London during the Napoleonic Wars. One of the best books I read last year.
... Blackbird House, Practical Magic and The Ice Queen. You might also try Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke.
In addition, several that are on my list this year are Shadow of the Wind and Winter's Tale
It's my favorite ...
... in his Agypt series and would say that would qualify as well. Neil Gaiman is fantastic, as is Charles de Lint. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell is great. Caitlín R. Kiernan is very modernly "urban" and very good. The Gormenghast Novels is certainly something to be experienced! ...
... you asked, yes, happy to oblige:
My 5 favorite reads of 2008
The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon--And the Journe ...
The Too Ghoul for School Series
by B. Strange
... woman reading Labyrinth (which is about a woman), a man reading Devil May Care (with a male protagonist), a man reading Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (an almost entirely masculine world described by a female author), and one of each gender reading Who Moved My Blackberry?. These are all ...
... The best one is the eponymous.
Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast (as a set, but my fave is clearly Titus Alone)
Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Lloyd Alexander, The Prydain chronicles (I thiiink my favourite is The High King)
Ursula Le Guin, Earthsea (but I think the last one ...
The Bigger they are, the harder they fall - chunksters, 500 pages and over
A. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
B. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
C. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (may finish in 2009)
D. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (ma ...
... Scott. Much easier to read, quite exciting and chock full of delightful mythology. Puts me in the mood for a re-read of Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norell ...
So far most of the books here seem to be nonfiction. Here's a few fiction suggestions:
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Confessions of a Pagan Nun by Kate Horsley
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Witch Child and Sorceress ...
... for his sins
#29 The Blue Hour by Lilian Pizzichini which is all and everything you need to know about Jean Rhys
#30 Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke, zzzzzzzzzzzz,
#31 Redburn by Herman Melville, ship ahoy!
#32 The Abbess of Crewe and #33 The Girls of Slender Mean ...
65. The Ladies Of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke. I really enjoyed reading Jonathan Strange And Mr Norrell - it reminded me of all the books I loved as a child where magic was just part of the normal world (like Joan Aiken), and for a little while after I finished it I had cravings for ...
#31 Jonathan Strange et Mr Norell de Susanna Clarke
Nous nous retrouvons dans une Europe en pleine guerre napoléonienne, où réapparait la magie.
Des personnalités intéressantes dans un univers uchronique passionnant.
La narration est un peu trop lourde, le style pas assez concis. ...
... Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
3. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
4. Hood by Stephen R. Lawhead
5. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
6. Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry
7. Invasive Procedures by Orson Scott Card
8. Ilse Witch by Ter ...
#90 HughFire - Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell has been on my shelves for quite a whiile. I got about 100 pages in and put it down a couple of years ago, but have great hopes of finding the right time to read it.
#94 theexiledlibrarian - I couldn't even get past the first page of Life of Pi ...
kmoellering you're my hero! I love Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell and absolutely found The Gentleman With The Thistledown Hair to be the epitomy of evil. Glad to find someone else who "got" that book.
The Gentlemen With The Thistledown Hair from my most favorite book of all time Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
... Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore
... alternate history fantasy (like urban fantasy in that they're set in our "real world", but not set in the present time). Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell , and Stephen R. Lawhead's Robin Hood trilogy are excellent.
... Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke
This is a short collection of stories by the Gaiman-esque author who brought us Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell . If that novel's length and loquacity drove you crazy, you are in luck here -- Clarke revisits the same magical world vision and uses much ...
... me to this thread. Here I go:
I am reading:
(a) The Secret to Life: Right Under Your Nose by Meijer Bjorn; (b) Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke; (c) The Malloreon, Volume 1 by David Eddings; (d) 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, Volume 25.3 edited by Emmanuel Goldstein; ...
... only limit me from reading some fantasy, etc. i read a lot of urban fantasy which does have a realistic setting. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell , for example, has a very clearly defined time frame.
Finished Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell and really enjoyed it. I am now working on an early reviewer book (nonfiction), Where the Wild Things Were about the demise of predators in world ecology and what it means for the biosphere, it is really interesting though rather depressing. I plan to ...
#16> I join you on Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell , but one I like even more is Jonathan Stroud's "Bartimaeus" trilogy (starting with The Amulet of Samarkand), which has the same use of footnoting that Susanna Clarke uses, though I think with a more humorous touch.
42. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
really good, so glad that I stuck at it as the first chapters were hard going but defo worth it.
I added a hardcover copy of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell to my inventory last night. It's missing a dust jacket, but is otherwise in perfect condition. I can only mooch in the U.S.
Edit- it was mooched.
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Suggestions:Crown Duel, Assassin's Apprentice, Savvy, Princess Ben, After You'd Gone, Mark of the Lion, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell , The Naming: The First Book of Pellinor, Black Ships, The Seer and the Sword, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, East, Who Was Chang ...
... by Lori Handeland
21. Where the Wild things Are, by Maurice Sendak
22. House of Many Ways, by Diana Wynne Jones
23. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel , by Susanna Clark
24. The Onion Girl, by Charles De Lint
#119 QuestingA
I liked Jonathan Strange but haven't gotten around to reading Ladies of Grace Adieu. That one is on my list. Even though many people think the Richard Sharpe books are for men I enjoyed them and learned even more about the Napoleonic Wars, so if you seem to be living in ...
I'm in the middle of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell and also reading book 4 of the Patrick O'brian series, The Mauritius Command. I am also still working on The Guns of August which is very troubling for me to read.
Jonathan Strange was a very good Christmas holiday read for me - you definitely need time!
I've been thinking about getting out my Bone comics again recently - I went through a bit of a phase with them just before University - but, because I bought them as they came out and finally getting ...
... I will abandon (I cannot bring myself to throw a book, any book, at the wall). The few that I remember abandoning are:
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell . It was not so much the story and the writing, but it was just so slow, and the book was way too many pages for that. I felt bad, because I ...
... for the bus :) I'll probably be having surgery some time in the next few months so will tackle an equally big sucker then: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell , because I know now that I won't be dragging that huge volume to work with me (I have the trade paperback edition)
... MyopicBookworm , I took a quick browse of your library.
You seem to like fantasy, and you also give a ***** to Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell .
On that basis, you might want to try Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus trilogy, starting with The Amulet of Samarkand followed by T ...
ok I'll admit to not finishing Jonathan Strange but I intend to and I quite enjoyed the first 400-500 pages that I read, it's just so damn thick ... in fact I've been thinking of going and picking it up again
I love Moby Dick and Grapes of Wrath, never tried Crime and Punishment, Don Qui ...
#45 It's sometimes quite hard to take, isn't it? I'm shuddering at the mention of that one, plus Jonathan Strange , Sophie's World, Grapes of Wrath, Owen Meany, Crime and Punishment, Don Quixote etc, etc, etc. Just as their nominators are no doubt shuddering at me shuddering at them ...
#45 It's sometimes quite hard to take, isn't it? I'm shuddering at the mention of that one, Jonathon Strange , Sophie's World, Grapes of Wrath, Owen Meany, Crime and Punishment, Don Quixote etc, etc, etc. Just as their nominators are no doubt shuddering at me shuddering at them ...
I'm a fan of most of the works above, specifically The Lies of Locke Lamora and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell . I was hooked young, but my favorite fantasy books then remain my favorites now - Robin McKinley's The Blue Sword and The Hero and the Crown. I mention them because they're a bit ...
... Dragon. It's a very fast paced story and a quick read.
Another historical fantasy in the same era that I loved is Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell . This is more of a meandering and engrossing story about the last two wizards in England. I took a quick look at your catalog and see a lot ...
I finished House of Leaves, but there was no reason to. I started and never finished Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell . Oops. I gave up on War and Peace too. I got about 40% of the way through, which in my edition is around page 500, and when I hit another "war" section I just ditched the ...
I enjoyed both too, I had to be in the right frame of mind to read Jonathon Strange it has a gentle pace and I needed to be patient with it.
I hope you enjoy Jonathan Strange as well. I liked both it and The Ladies of Grace Adieu.
... other bits were not quite what I was after. I ended up reading around 2/3 to 3/4 of the (mostly) stand-alone chapters.
Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrell , Susannah Clarke was recommended to me as being very funny à la Douglas Adams or Neil Gaiman. It wasn’t. It wasn’t even funny at all. I ...
From callmejacx's library Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel Susanna Clarke
And now I've gone and mooched two more to make nine, so I'll choose Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell as freebie two.
Thanks again for the fabulous deal!
... by W.G. Sebald
8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin and Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
The Demon-haunted World by Carl Sagan
...
... three!
Here are your options:
1. Freakonomics, updated edition, hardcover TAKEN
2. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell , hardcover***
... a lot of recommendations that way.
Lud-in-the-Mist has fairies, but they're more background characters. If you liked Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell 's style, I think there's a decent chance you'd like the style of this as well. It's an older book, this, published in 1929, I believe, but ...
... sitting and never list as "Currently Reading". I'm pretty sure Dead and Gone is getting read, just not as slowly as Jonathan Strange .
Finished Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell last night. Not much sleep for me!! I enjoyed it a lot, but was disappointed in the passive roles of all the female characters.
Still reading Gunpowder: A history of the explosive that changed the world and I'm not starting anything else until Wednesd ...
... portrayed now. Elves get all of this great otherworldly press about having lives and motives that are alien to humans (see Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell for a great example, and the Amulet of Samarkand Bartimaeus trilogy for the equivalent with djinn), but vampires have been reduced to ...
Not quite about stage magicians, but Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is about magicians in that time period, and I really enjoyed it. It has a non-fantasy feeling to it like the Prestige, even though I would classify both as fantasy novels. (I guess I mean that the fantastical elements are subtle, ...
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If you like Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell pick up the short story collection also - The Ladies of Grace Adieu: and Other Stories - it's in the same world, some stories filling the blanks left from the novel, some just concerning other characters from the novel besides the two title ...
>#247 I've been reading Jonathan Strange . A couple of other people were too. I hope they still are! I'd love to know how those people are finding it. I'm at the point where I really want to finish the story but don't want the book it to end. :)
#252 Jasper Fforde's certainly not to everybody's ...
... category. It's been a while ago, back at the beginning of this week, when somebody on this list said they were reading Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell , now there's another fun Regency read. I hope you enjoy it. What a great fun bunch of books to read and remember with relish!
#52 - The Bodies Left Behind by Jeffrey Deaver - ***
#53 - Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke - ***
Still reading Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - just over half way through !!
Have also started Gunpowder: A history of the explosive that changed the world by Jack Kelly. I started this mainly because JS and Mr N is physically too huge to carry around and I have a pathological need to ...
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. There. That is the best part of the whole book.
I loved The Idiot and Jonathon Strange and Mr Norrel but I am heartened by all the people who, like me, could not plow through the The Silmarillion. When I meet people who say it is the best of of JRRT's ...
... (It's not stopped me reading most of the series in completely insane order, mind.)
Let's see... I could never get into Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell , try as I might. I do want to try again one more time, though. It took me years and years to get beyond the first page of a Pratchett book, ...
Still reading Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell and have started Samurai Executioner vol.3 (because it fits into my bag better than Jonathan Strange).
I continue in the London area with Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell and am also hiding out in the woods of Wisconsin avoiding The Bodies Left Behind by Jeffrey Deaver.
I am reading Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke and listening to The Bodies Left Behind by Jeffrey Deaver.
I am reading Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell :
1. Where did you get this book? BookMooch
2. Why did you pick this book to read NOW? Impulse
3. How long has it been on your shelf? 6 months
4. So far, what do you like best about this book? Just started, interesting plot is pulling ...
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke.
I finished Everyman by Philip Roth, another direct hit on a truth, death in our culture.
I am jsut starting Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke.
... are you on NOW? How many pages left to go?
126 out of 276. Normally i avoid maths, but this is easy - 170 pages to go.
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
1. Where did you get this book?
I picked this up from Borders in York (where the beginning of the book is set).
2. W ...
>78 I've been working on Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell for a while now. You'll have to keep us updated!
Still reading By Permission of Heaven and have started Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke.
>49 callen610 - I don't know any reading groups for Greek classics but hope you enjoy the Iliad. I've read The Odyssey and keep going back to the Aeneid every couple of years, it's such ...
I am reading Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke.
1. A co-worker gave it to me b/c he thought I would enjoy it and he had just picked up a copy of it in hardcover so he had an extra.
2. He said it was kinda Jane Austen meets Harry Potter -ish book so I figured that was right ...
I finally found the missing Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell it was in my labtop case so I am finishing it I'm almost 300 pages in. While I was searching for that I started Whoredom in Kimmage.
I have to remember to look for a copy of Lost in Austen it sounds like a fun book!!
I have managed to misplace Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell and it was getting interesting! bummer, now I have to tear my house apart to look for it. I guess that gives me a good excuse to go on a deep clean ...
#445: I loved Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell. Try reading a few pages - that will give you an indication of whether the style is for you or not.
#444: Anna Karenina, like War & Peace, are enjoyable when you employ judicious skipping. Tolstoy did love a good ramble.
... couldn't finish To Say Nothing of the Dog which I had really wanted to like.
I really liked The Da Vinci Code
And Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell and The Historian are on my beach vacation reading list for the summer, but it looks like a lot of people didn't like them. I might have ...
... because I don't really want to reread books of more than 1000 pages more than once because I've forgotten parts of them: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clark because I have the trade paperback version and I commute to work by bus and subway and it's too hefty: The Devil in ...
... But I didn't care any more about Anna and her Count the second time around. They seemed like boring, shallow people.
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell was a big disappointment; the prose seemed to drag and the characters were neither interesting nor likable.
On the other hand, I'm sorry ...
... have been since I was 12 and picked up a copy of The Diary of Anne Frank. A co-worker of mine had an extra copy of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell he said if I enjoyed HP I would like it. I'm not very far into yet, but I'll let ya'll know what I think.
I had to make a trip to the ...
... fuss is about. I might give them a try eventually - when I run out of really good stuff to read. :D
I just finished Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell - such fun! It's a very hefty book, but really good. Now I'm finally starting Mists of Avalon which I've been meaning to read for ages - ...
26. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell - Susanna Clarke
Wow - am I glad I'm done with this book! But, it's not like it sounds - the book was truly fantastic! It is just such a massive tome that it was somewhat inconvenient to carry around and to hold up when reading in bed! For those ...
... I'd like to second richardderus' lovely review of The Ladies of Grace Adieu - I enjoyed it even more than I enjoyed Jonathan Strange among my favourites for this year so far...
#127: Definitely going to have to look for that one. I enjoyed Jonathan Strange when I read it several years ago, so I will probably enjoy this one too! Thanks for the 'hot review', Richard!
... of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke is a delectable cocktail peanut of a book. I wish it had been available before Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell , because it would have made a perfect gateway drug to the longer, more intense, and more exhausting high of the Big One. But that's like ...
27. The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke
A fun collection of short stories. If you liked Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell , you will like this book. I read almost all of it in one sitting.
I am doing really well toward my 50, but not so well on diminishing the TBR. It was below 1 ...
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell is certainly known for its language. A bit Dickensian in fact.
Janny Wurtz also has a distinctive writing style that can push the vocabulary a bit
... into. Again, I have issues with her style, but she's good.
If you like more Victorian writing, you might also enjoy Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell , but it seems to be a love/hate kind of book. If you don't mind dark fantasy that requires you think, you might also like Caitlín R. Kiernan ...
> 9 Yes, but these are Robin McKinley's vampires - totally different! ;)
I finished Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell over the weekend and am going to start Life as We Knew It in order to 1) enjoy some post-apoc goodness and 2) See whether I would rec it in our YA thread.
... Powers, to mention a few diverse examples.
I would also heartily recommend another book that has already been mentioned: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell .
I'm in London with Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell .
I have heard that Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell is pretty good. I was thinking that maybe it made the 1001 books list. I guess I will have to go check now. Have a great day!
--BJ
ETA Well, I guess that I was wrong. I did not see it in the index. Maybe I have just read so many positive ...
... so vastly different from the typical western that it just caused a certain amount of cognitive dissidence. Likewise for Jonathan Strange , set in the drawing rooms and battlefields of the romances, but from the very, very different perspective of social outsiders.
Now the genius of this ...
... Harris
7-The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
8-Troy: Lord of the Silver Bow (Troy Trilogy) by David Gemmell
9-Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
... just a question. A question that's better answered through sampling - tag sampling of "unfinished" already tells you that Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell is the book you're looking for.
Edit - fixed touchstone
I bought Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell and Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems.
Yay! (That's why I edited)
Still ficus, I think I will pass on Tell me Where it Hurts, but have alreadly picked up Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell as well as The Ladies of Grace Adieu thanks to you and richardear, not to mention BetterWorldBooks.com. Oh and five others ( five for $15 no real shipping charge, who can ...
Starting Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke, after having finished the fabulous Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman.
Whew, it's been a while! I have a couple of absolute tomes going right now (Anna Karenina and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell ), but in the mean time:
26) Milk, Eggs, Vodka by Bill Keaggy. This book is a collection of shopping lists found by the author left in shopping carts, etc. It ...
... by Chaucer is still one of my favorites, as is Leaves of Grass by Whitman.
my newest favorite voluminous novel is Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell by Susanna Clarke.
Wow March is over already... and I need to update! Finished :
Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
Inkspell by Cornelia Funke
I usually stop reading if I don't particularly like something. Some examples of recent years have been Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell , Animal Farm, and Cryptonomicon. I wanted to like all three of these, but just couldn't get into them. Might try again sometime later in life. An author I as ...
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I also started Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell and had to interupt my reading. It's not awful, and I might pick it up again later, but it's just soooooo long that I felt it wasn't grasping my attention. (I've found that now I cannot read for long stretches of time like I used to... sadly.)
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... Mars but i havent been able to finish, because i keep thinking about Blue Mars and Green Mars and Quicksilver and Jonathan Strange and M. Norrel and . . . it's not pretty. lol. whenever my friend's dog does something that he knows will get into trouble, the dives beneath the table, ...
I am the only person I know in the 3D world who actually finished Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell ... I did like it, but the overuse of certain words like "thistle down" and "sanguine" had me gritting my teeth. If that one was edited even slightly more I think it would have been amazing. But I ...
... ology
Glen Cook's Black Company series
Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber
David Gemmell's Legend
Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Peter V. Brett's The Warded Man
Matthew Stover's Acts of Caine (disclaimer: not for the sensitive/squeamish)
Also, I see you've got ...
I gave into the hype here at LT over Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell .
That won't happen again.
Morphy, a question? I looked in the library and couldn't find Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke, but I see it's on a list, so is it eligible? If it is, I just read it. :)
If you like stories about magicians, try The Prestige. It was awesome! For something with a bit more fantasy twist, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is pretty good.
Bought Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke as well as The Edwardians by Vita Sackville-West.
... I finished Wally Lamb's The Hour I First Believed and the memoir My Lobotomy, which was interesting. I just started Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell and I really LOVE it so far! It's going to be a lengthy read, but it's so far very entertaining. Hope everyone is having a good February so ...
...
Stardust was fun, and I think The Graveyard Book is one of my new favourites. I've yet to get my hands on a copy of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell but it's definitely one I'm hoping to get my hands on (second hand because I'm a poor uni student lol!)
tash99 - I didn't notice so much ...
... Stardust (although it's been sitting on my bookshelf forever!) and The Graveyard Book but I so want to. I also have Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell on my shelf. It's such a big book, so I have to wait until I have a decent chunk of time to devote to it, hehe.
... I really enjoyed this. Not bad considering I picked it out because the cover was pretty (it's a terrible habit of mine).
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Carter Beats the Devil
The Shadow of the Wind
Never the Bride by Paul Magrs - it's definitely odd but I absolutely loved it. I ...
... were not the Hugo winners: the Cordelia's Honor duology, A Civil Campaign, and The Curse of Chalion.
I'm afraid Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell is near the bottom of my borrowed books list because I keep going to the library and then worrying about the due dates after I actually had ...
... Curse of Chalion is excellent as well. Have you already read hers?
I have to say that I was not as impressed with Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell as many. It was a creative storyline, but the story never pulled me into it, if you know what I mean. I'll be interested in your reaction.
*snerk* Morphy made a pun!
Do corn chips and salsa count? I had those yesterday.
I finished Master and Commander at 1:30am. I would have finished it yesterday except for the Bozo who made so many incomprehensible marks in it with his pencil made me stop and erase on every page before I ...
... chemist
I Capture the Castle
The Time Traveller's Wife - although having said that I can't currently locate my copy.
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
This Thing of Darkness
What a great idea, to follow the Hugo list. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell will be coming up in my very near future, and I look forward to seeing what you think of it. Welcome to the group!
... rving
Best Dystopian: (tie) Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury & The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Best Fantasy: (tie) Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke & Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory MaGuire
Best Crime Novel: The Constant Gardene ...
... a book is horrid or dull I want to finish it anyway, just to give it a fair shot... this is the reason why I haven't post Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell yet... I just can't get into it (I've described it as like slogging though quicksand with cement bricks attached to your feet) but I don't ...
#1 Booksloth
Anyone who could rate Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell as one of their comfort reads is a hero. It's one of my favourites as well.
... Goerge R R Martin 12/4/9
6) When will there be good news Kate Atkinson 18/05/09
7) The Rose labyrinth
8) Jonathan strange and Mr Norrell susanna clarke aug 2009
9)Eragon Christopher paolini Aug 2009
I'll second Elantris, Hart's Hope, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, and Watership Down.
And I'll add:
Shardik by Richard Adams
Maia by Richard Adams - Set in the same world as Shardik, with some character crossover, but the stories are independent. Maia is fairly sexually explicit, ...
... know by heart - The Steinbeck 'funnies' - (Cannery Row and Tortilla Flat) - Diana Gabaldon's 'Outlander' books, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell , Sophie's World, The Crimson Petal and the White, The Secret History and any short stories by Saki.
What are yours?
E to try ...
Just finished both Mort and The Princess Bride. Both are great books.
Today I started Sourcery and might start up on Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell as well.
... one and started into volume two and then it just sort of petered out - perhaps I got bored with the length.
>38 yosarian Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is on my 2009 reading list as well.
- TT
... i'm looking forward now though to getting started and starting our own thread ... bring on napolean I say (i have finished jonathan strange and mr norrell recently and this also deals with napoleanic wars in europe and might make a good follow up read for people to keep the theme going)
... do I start them? i've put this dilemma on hold for the time being and have been listenign to the excellent audio version of jonathan strange and mr norrell but I'm onto the last disc now and have to decide soon ...
I am also looking for suggestions for books in my 'travel' category if anyone ...
... an evolutionary path leading to a dead-end, as Dawkins puts it?
There is an interesting possible explanation for this in Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel (p. 542): "I mean that *two* of any thing is a most uncomfortable number. *One* may do as he pleases. *Six* may get along well enough. But *t ...
... by Katherine Neville, at Eats, Shoots, and Leaves, at Nora Ephron writing anything, at the The Mists of Avalon, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell , and virtually anything Oprah Winney likes. This is a great list. I could keep going for ages. The Catcher in the Rye is a guy thing. ...
... 2: The Doll's House - Neil Gaiman
The Sandman, Volume 3: Dream Country - Neil Gaiman
Vegan Express - Nava Atlas
Jonathan Strange And Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett
Reaper Man - Terry Pratchett
Night Watch - Terry Pratchett
Stardust - Nei ...
On the contrary I enjoyed the start of Jonathan Strange And Mr Norrell more than the second half of the book. So YMMV as they say.
kabrahamson, that's quite a list! I just received Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell from my SantaThing, and I'm looking forward to picking it up. I recently finished The Lace Reader -- I found the first couple of chapters to be a little hard to get through, but don't give up!
Megz, when you' ...
... it. Hey, maybe someone can tell me - what exactly was Dunstan Thorn's Hearts Desire anyway?
Books to Read in 2009:
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell - Susanna Clarke (recommended by a friend)
In the Night Garden - Catherynne M. Valente (recommended by a friend)
In the City of Coin ...
... Jackson
Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book by Brian Froud, Terry Jones
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
Through a Glass Darkly by Karleen Koen
The Virgin in the Garden by A. S. Byat ...
... 2am Jan 1st 2009...already in process of reading a few books including On Writing/ Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day" and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Will be adding all year long :)
This sounds like a fun idea. I'm looking forward to challenging myself to spend more reading the books in my backlog and less time cataloging them on LibraryThing.
I've left some open slots and I'll certainly change around some of the books, but for now, here are my categories
1. Anthologies
...
I HAVE read Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell but I have never read......
The Hobbit
One more try......
I have never read Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Heaven and Hell
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
The Lady and the Unicorn
The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists
The Pirates! in an Adventure with Ahab
III. "You Have to Read This!" : Books recommended by friends, relatives, LT, etc.
1. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
2. Stardust by Neil Gaiman
3. Jenna Starborn by Sharon Shinn
4. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
5. Bo ...
I'm in the early 1800s in magical England in Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell .
... Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
My Booky Wook by Russell Brand
The Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn Peake
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Kilmeny of the Orchard by L.M. Montgomery
Volumes 2-5 of L.M. Montgomery's journals
I am an individual of varied ...
... :-) Here goes, in the order I read them:
Fiction:
Book of a Thousand Days
Bloody Jack
The Name of the Wind
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Princess Ben
Victory of Eagles
The Shadow of the Wind
Flora's Dare
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Nonfi ...
Books Over 500 Pages
1. The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
2. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell by Susanna Clarke
3. The Russian Concubine by Kate Furnivall
4. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
5. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer - 1/3/09
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... time. I read both Yiddish Policemen's Union and Gentlemen of the Road in close proximity with no sense of repetition. Jonathan Strange on the other hand wanders all over the place -- but I enjoyed the sense of place and time built up thereby.
... ker
4. Tangled Webs
5. Elfhunter
6. Shadow of the Ghost byTanner Artesz
7. Foundation
8. Name of the Wind
9. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
... ER books this year!).
85) The Ladies of Grace Adieu - Susanna Clarke: Short stories based in the same world as Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell . It's funny, after I read Jonathan Strange, I read a lot of reviews comparing Susanna Clarke to Jane Austen, something that I ...
How about foggidawn?
And Mr Andrew?
And pollysmith?
I love the books that are coming up!
eta: Aw man! foggi, Breaking Dawn isn't touchstoning when I submit this!
... about 3/4 of the way through and completely stopped reading the footnotes. I remember thinking it was kind of like Jonathan Strange with the footnotes, except most of the ones in DD weren't quite as long as those in JS. Like most Victorian novels (i.e., Woman in White, which I also ...
The Chabon is good. I liked the Mars trilogy, although the first was the best of the three. I have Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell but have yet to read it. The size is somewhat offputting.
... Mars is one of those books I tossed aside after about seventy pages; I was just tired of KSR's geezer Martian settlers.
Jonathan Strange and Spin I found somewhat overrated, though the former I might give another shot to at some point and the second had a good emotional payoff. Rainbows E ...
... to inflict it on anyone else.
What had attracted me to it was that, from its cover blurbs, it looked something like Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell or the Bartimaeus trilogy. The problem was, it just didn't have any focus. It had two major characters (Molly and Oliver), but the way Pul ...
... watch for your review to see if I should move it to my Because I Want to to category. I'll also be looking to see if Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke should go into my fantasy category.
You have a lot of my favorite books on your lists--the following I consider 5 star ...
TBR Pile
1. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
2. Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell
3. Dragon by Clive Cussler
4. A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
5. The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen
6. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
7. Dead Until ...
... enough!
Gentlemen of the Road
The Road
Fragile Things
Heart-Shaped Box
Coraline
Night Watch
Reaper Man
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Flowers For Algernon
No Country For Old Men
The 19th Wife
Mort
A Short History Of Nearly Everything
The Book Of Lost Things ...
... The Court of the Air by Stephen Hunt. I'm just a little ways into it, but so far it's great. It reminds me a bit of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell .
... Hunt, although perhaps it's more fantasy than sci-fi. Just beginning, but it's really great, reminding me somewhat of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell .
Books in 2008 that I loved:
Transformations by Anne Sexton
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Flora Segunda by Ysabeau S. Wilce
The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden by Catherynne M Valente
The Queen of Attolia by Me ...
Books Over 500 Pages Long:
1) Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke - ***
2) The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy - *****
3) The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust
4) The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes
5) Martin Dressle ...
... reading Harry Potter. It's not entirely just me being a snob (though partly it is!). I do love Philip Pullman and Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is one of my favourite books. I suspect my dislike of HP comes from all the hype. By the time I read the first HP book I was expecting ...
(A small remark about Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel - it is a *very* easy read - though also around 1000 pages, these pass without you noticing, and exactly because of its readability and accessibility (+ lots of humour) I have used it several times to introduce people to the Fantasy genre ...
BorisG I agree with your idea of putting up Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell as a candidate. I would also like them to consider The Quincunx by Charles Palliser. I have read the book three times. The Dickensian style of the book is just superb and it is a riveting read.
What about Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel ? Have any of you guys read this book? It's a wonderful mixture of Dickensian style and humour with fantasy - a combination hard to beat in my books.
Reading it for the second time now, and again enjoying it enormously. A good hardcover pseudo Dickens F ...
“Upon the contrary. I was never here in my life.”
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
“Do you want to kill the King, sir?”
... paperback format (quality paperbacks, not the kind you can buy in a drugstore).
If you enjoy fantasy, Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell is a fantastic pastiche of Regency times, written in the dry, half-brittle style of Jane Austen. It's not wizards and dragons and spells, ...
13. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Long book, but well worth the time.
“Toasted cheese.”
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
“Do you hear bells?”
I'm still intrigued by my original nudge, but I have to say Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell was wonderful. I did, however, giggle more at Clarke's The Ladies of Grace Adieu in which the nosy parker magician runs up against "the ladies" (in one of the short stories at least).
One enormous shove to Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke. I've read this 3 times and still it mesmerises me.
... – which had seemed perfection at first – was soon discovered to be in need of every sort of improvement.
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
... The Secret History. After that, you should move on immediately to An Instance of the Fingerpost, Les Miserables and Jonathan Strange . Happy reading!
A mega nudge for both Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell and Les Miserables!!!
I'll nudge The Secret History too.
What I have read of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell I have loved but I'm only around a third of the way through. Real life and other books keep interrupting!
... my fond memories were just because of the time at which I read it, so I revisited it. It's still great.
I also loved Jonathan Strange , but it does seem to be one of those books that divides people. Much disagreement over whether the Victorian pastiche and clever footnotes are skilfully ...
There's a lot of good stuff in that pile! Of those I've read, I would nudge (in this order) Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell , The Secret History and American Gods, and de-nudge An Instance of the Fingerpost, although only for the vague recollection that it starts strongly but doesn't end ...
... it would be (it's piquant), and working faster than I ever expected.
I'm listening to Omnivore's Dilemma, reading Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel , and have Dead Until Dark in the queue.
I'm a tv-watching knitter, and I've been toying with the idea of figuring out how to read and ...
... writing....
I've been pretty busy lately, finally I've found the time to catch up with my latest readings.
Finished Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
What a drag, it took me 6 month to work my way through this mess.
I loved the idea Susanna Clarkecame up with, but her plot got ...
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
“Oh!” said Mr. Robinson. “Well, in that case I must confess that I do not know quite how to proceed.”
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
“Our question is, sir, why is no more magic done in England?”
... read! Ha!).
Hubby got Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell which I think I'll really enjoy, too.
I got a copy of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke for $4.99 and Novel Destinations: Literary Landmarks from Jane Austen's Bath to Ernest Hemingway's Key West by Shannon M ...
... a financial backer. Too bad! This was well written and fun from beginning to end. Somewhere between Lolly Willowes and Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, but with a sense of humor.
... to the moonstone by far, byt then again I really enjoy stories of madness and confused identities etc.
I also loved Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell although know plenty of people who couldn't get through it due to the footnotes etc - for me, this was part of its unique charm. Does anyone ...
... sisters are used 177,712 times by 1,715 users. That's a lot of unread books. The book most tagged 'tbr' in raw count was Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke, in weighted count it's My Father's Paradise by Ariel Sabar, so both (unsurprisingly perhaps) recent books. Howev ...
I'm reading Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell by Susanna Clarke.
... well written, at least through the first two books. Written by a teenager and you can tell, although teens seem to like it. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell --long, very slow in some sections. I never felt really connected to the characters. If you only have 9 books to select, I would judge this ...
I love Jonathon Strange and Mr Norrell . It is a lengthy book to get through, but if you can hold out through to the end, it's worth it. If you do read it and enjoy it, you may also want to consider Susanna Clarke's The Ladies of Grace Adieu as well.
... book, I have access to the Abhorsen Trilogy and the Eragon trilogy--no one has mentioned these--any good? I also own Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrell which I'm considering. I wold definitely like to discover a good new (to me) fantasy author because i used to read quite a bit of fantasy ...
... .
Usually I just put a finished book onto the shelf and pick up a new one...
This is also a sublime motivation to finish
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell this month and start selecting books for November.
Here's my preliminary list:
Harry Potter 5-7
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel ...
... Hunter's Moon
The Summer King Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Kissing the Witch Just Because
The Host
The Dead and the Gone
Sunshine
Pagan's Cr ...
... I didn't figure it out and added her to my list of authors I will not read again.
I love Susanna Clarke's works too. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell was basically written in my favorite type of prose, but I didn't know it was my favorite until I read it. I could read her writing all day ...
... long, long enough to get lost in.
And The Ladies of Grace Adieu is just fun... like expanded footnotes from Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell .
Perhaps we just look for different things in a fantasy book. I happened to love all the ingredients Clarke uses, but I know people who ...
Oh, dear ~ I like Clarke and Lackey, though I admit they are somewhat uneven writers. While I loved Jonathan Strange , The Ladies of Grace Adieu left me cold. As for Mercedes, I couldn't even get through the last One Hundred Kingdoms novel, The Snow Queen.
I'm not crazy about the last ...
#22 I read fantasy all the time, and I had difficulty with Wicked. Nor did I particularly care for Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell . I have Perdido Street Station on the TBR heap, but it just moved down after hearing you, Arthur. The book that I hated, hated, hated--3 page chapters, ADHD ...
Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell (fantasy, magicians)
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (a prequel to Jane Eyre from the perspective of the first Mrs. Rochester, the madwoman in the attic, though its main setting is in the Caribbean)
Tiffany Trent, the Hallowmere series (similar ...
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - ugh! I got halfway through and promptly put it on BookMooch for some other poor soul.
... Time to try.
Jian by Lustbader, Eric Van
Miko (The Miko) by Lustbader, Eric Van
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Clarke, Susanna , because I was intrigued by the historical plot.
Frihetsdrottningen / 1, Skuggornas rike (La raine liberté, L`empire des ténèbres) by Jacq, Christian
...
... And readable. While I very much enjoy Jane Eyre and Heyer and Jane Austen, I must disclose that I really did not enjoy Mr. Norrell and Jonathan Strange even though I expected to--it never engaged me and I had to struggle through it. I did not have that reaction to this book. Hope this is ...
... thread ~ adding my .02
Thirteenth Tale was horrid, hateful characters and the stupidest ending of recent memory!
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell same thing, LONG winded, used the word "sanguine" about 300 times and ultimately very pointless and boy, sorry I stuck with it all the way ...
Is it Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell ?
edited in an attempt to fix touchstone
... meaning - I think Gaiman described it as being a fundamentally English novel of the fantastic. I've also read Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell and Stardust both of which are supposed to contain echoes of Lud-In-The-Mist. However dukedom isn't the only one who wanted to like it ...
... in Mt TBR. I've been ignoring my Sarah Monette, Neal Stephenson, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Robin Hobbs, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell ... What a nice reminder about books I've got to look forward to :o)
17, littlebookworm - I'm in the same boat as you. Before I start Jack ...
Third vote for Guy Gavriel Kay, esp. The Lions of al-Rassan, but Tigana is good too. Also, seconding Jonathan Strange .
ETA thanks to everyone for the suggestions of other good series.
... thanks for that...
oh yeah, received Better Off by Eric Brende and a brick-like package containing a hardback copy of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell from BM. Guy paid $8.50 to send me JM&MN... wow! Many many thanks!
... book. Plenty of research into that as well - who would have thought that cheese glue would be a major plot point.
Maybe Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell if you haven't already read it.
You may want to consider Robert Holdstock's Mythago Wood and sequels although they don't have a ...
Just started The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke, who knows maybe it will convince me to finally the copy of Jonathon Norrell and Mr Strange that has been sitting on my shelves for the last few years!
just finished Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell .It was incredible.Probably the best book of magic and fantasy that's not a series i've read,i want more.
Reading The Name of The Wind and Patricia Mckillip's Winter Rose.
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Has anyone read The magicians and mrs. quent,it seems close to jonathan strange and mr. norrell ,have'nt heard any reviews here yet and i'm curious before i read.it seems intresting.love strange and norrell ,i've got about 150 pages left.It's fantastic.Trying to fin others like it.Also just ...
I've just checked the Adagio Tea web site and found no reference to these intriguing and strange tea blends. Do you think someone was spoofing? Not that I'd be tempted, since I abhor fruit-flavoured teas (with the exception of apricot occasionally, when I need an apricot fix and none are ...
... the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
Hominids by Robert J. Sawyer
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Ilium by Dan Simmons
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Lavondyss by Robert Holdstock
Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold
Moving Mars by Greg Bear
Paladin of Souls ...
... it be like if we all felt exactly the same about our choices in life, what a bore that would be.
But, I , for one, loved Jonathan Strange .. and was fascinated by Ministry of Special Cases, and Child 44 was a heartbreaker.
Just an aside: does anybody else have the same quirk I do in not ...
... To Heaven - a bit trashy, but Tim Curry's narration is fabulous
Devil in the White City
The Talisman
Black House
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Alias Grace
Some I didn't enjoy so much:
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - even abridged it tends to get redundant, and I didn't ...
Try Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke. It is set in 19th Century England and features many historic events of the time (for example the Battle of Waterloo), but is very much a fantasy novel.
Personally I don't like fantasy books, but I really enjoyed this. It clocks in ...
56F.) The Ladies of Grace Adieu and other stories by Susanna Clarke
An excellent collection of fairy tales and tales of magic from the world of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell. This was prefaced by an "introduction" from a fictional magical scholar, setting the tone for the work. Each of ...
... I have to read all those twenty books within three weeks, so I can't not read several at once.
Right now I'm reading:
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (love the book but it is so HUGE, and taking me forever)
Heartsick by Chelsea Cain
The Etched City by K.J Bishop
Jane Eyre by Charl ...
... been known to buy long books and then save them for vacation, when I can really devote some dedicated time to them. I did Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrell that way--I probably had it for 8 months, and I wanted to read it, but I was saving it for vacation!
... that there's anything wrong with that.)
Anyway, I think I'm a sucker for stories about magicians. (I also really liked Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell .) Far more than monsters, there's something I find sort of enchanting about the whole concept of secret traditions or hidden realities that ...
... afternoon/evening (at the libary I work at), I'm think about getting something by Gregory Maguire (other than Wicked), Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell , maybe a Tamora Pierce book, and maybe one other book.
In the order I read them:
1. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
2. Understanding Manga and Anime by Robin Brenner
3. Tsubasa series
4. Her Majesty's Dog series
5. Princess Ben by Catherine Murdock
Honorable mention goes to 13 Little Blue Envelopes and Word ...
... (I guess I'm weird too drneutron ;-) And after diligently working my way through half the book, I ended up really liking Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell too.
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
... by H. G. Wells
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale
Mr. Brimble's Hobby by Eve Rice
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
The Army of the Potomac: Mr. Lincoln's Army by Bruce Catton
Princess Nevermore by Dian Curtis Regan
...
... I'll start one, then, no matter how good that one, another shiny book will catch my eye.
At the moment I'm reading:
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell by Susanna Clarke
The Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart, about Merlin and Arthur
Monster of God by David Quammen, non-fiction
Fragile Thin ...
... These Old Shades is probably my favorite.
Gabaldon has a strong fantasy element--if you like that you might try Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell , though some say its dead-on imitation of Austen can be a bit dull, I thought that its treatment of magic as incredibly dry and funny.
...
#29 The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke -- fiction/fantasy
A collection of short stories by the author of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell , which I read several years ago and really enjoyed.
29. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell was purely a puff read. My friend, hearing that I was in a reading slump, immediately recommended that I read something that I wouldn't otherwise and directed me towards this book. It was pretty light reading - well, the book itself was heavy, but the subject ...
... Apprentice
4. Royal Assassin
5. Assassin's Quest
6. Fool's Errand
7. Golden Fool
8. Fool's Fate
9. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
10. Captains and the Kings
11. Jingo
12. The Naked Face
13. Maskerade
14. Wee Free Men
15. A Hat Full of Sky
16. Winters ...
From BookMooch:
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
... Otranto
Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Bram Stoker, Dracula
Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome
and,
David C. Major & John S. Major, 100 One-Night Reads: a Book Lover's Guide (no ...
I'm listening to Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. It's OK. Very Victorian.
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell has some comedy-of-manners aspects.
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel , it's a suprisingly thick book.
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke???
LOL Booksloth, I'm STILL working on Jonathan Strange and fear I will be for a while. I did put Labyrinth down in the middle but once I got past that I was fine...
Didn't like 'Tis as much as Angela's Ashes and I liked Teacher Man best.
... but I get the feeling you'd love Under the Skin. And another great one I'm sure you'd like, if you haven't yet read it is Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke - a kind of Harry Potter for grownups.
I have tokens sitting on the mantelpiece right now. I'm trying to hold out for ...
... an epistolary historical novel she cowrote with Steven Brust. It's a leisurely read; if you have read and enjoyed Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell you will probably like it as well.
...
Perdido Street Station - because I'm dying to see cactus people, amongst the other weird inhabitants of that world.
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - I'm not sure why but I keep wanting to visit "england in the time of magic"
... interested in LOTR or Terry Pratchett, try as I might.
I enjoyed or even loved some of the books mentioned above like Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell , Behind the Scenes at the Museum (Kate Atkinson is one of my favourite authors), and A Confederacy of Dunces, but I can see why other ...
... the same with the first Harry Potter book. I can't imagine having completely abandoned Harry Potter!
Currently I have Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke on hiatus. I just can't deal with a loooong book at the moment. I just finished three (or so long ones and need ...
... soon thereafter.
Last week I was kind of MIA with jury duty, but I also got a lot of reading done and finally finished Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell . It was definitely worth the long haul!
Thanks for the detailed reply, Django. If so, buying now one of the copies of the limited Jonathan Norrel and Mr. Norrel with signatures of both Susanna Clarke and Portia Rosenberg (there are a few of those around), seems like a good idea, considering the popularity of the book. (It's a great ...
I used to always finish books, until I ran into Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell . That book convinced me not to torture myself with garbage books any longer.
I very warmly recommend Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell . I read it as soon as it came out and, literally, could not put it down.
Of Jackie Collins I cannot say anything, as she writes books that do not appeal to me and, as such, I have never read any of them.
So, I bought Jackie Collins' new book Drop Dead Beautiful and also bought Jonathan Norell and Mr Strange but I've not got a clue which one to start on. I think Jackie would be a laugh a minute but Jonathan Strange might be good fun too.
Any suggestions?
... Space Left Behind by Joan Ackermann
I cruised through this book in just eight days -- quite a change of pace after Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell . I'm not that used to reading young adult fiction, but there were parts of this book that I liked a lot and other parts that I wasn't crazy ...
Not quite 1/2 way through Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell . I'm really enjoying it, though the footnotes are really hard to follow on audio...
Valis by Philip K. Dick (not sure if I like it or not)
Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien
I started both of these last week, but it's That Tim ...
... within the first few pages I throw in the towel. Nonfiction I'll give a little longer, or just skim. I recently gave up on Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell when the library's audio copy developed a flaw. I returned it and decided I didn't care enough to check out the hard copy instead. I also ...
11. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Wow, I feel like I kind of fell off the wagon there. To tell the truth, I was reading this book pretty steadily and it totally kept my interest. However, it was very long and in the end it took 43 days to read!
My updated pace is ...
#169 bell7, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is a truly wonderful book -- one of the best I read last year. I can't imagine listening to it with all those footnotes, though! Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
... it helps...
I'm reading Song of the Sparrow and Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War. I'm listening to Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (also reading, because it's so long and the footnotes are kind of difficult to follow on audiobook), and Magic Kingdom for Sale -- Sold!.
Jonathan Strange won an award for best audio book several years ago, so I am sure that the footnotes must have been done really well. It is just that visual cues are really important in reading and sometimes I have a hard time figuring that kind of thing out from just listening. That is why I ...
I listened to Jonathan Strange too and thought it was wonderful on audio. Somehow, the way the reader did it, the footnotes were perfectly done. I also bought the hardcover and intend to read it again that way, just to see the difference.
... #83) There may also be some works of fiction that would be hard to translate into a spoken version. A friend listened to Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell and got along very well. This is a book in which half of the content is in the footnotes. I don't understa nd quite how doing spoken ...
... how long will it take him to read them, especially since they're not even at the top of the TBR list? (Highlights are Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell , Beautiful Lies, and Empire Falls.)
From another danged HPB coupon:
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
March by Geraldine Brooks
Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner
The Seduction of Water by Carol Goodman
Local Girls by Alice Hoffman
From PBS:
...
Gormenghast is one of those books I've never managed to finish, though I did rather like Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell . Some of the best work in the fantasy genre is YA lit, and along these lines you might want to try The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scot ...
Hi folks
Any recommendations for someone who hasn't read a lot of fantasy but recently read Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell and Gormenghast and loved both?
Thanks
... Interface wasn't bad.
Anansi Boys - not as good as American Gods but I still liked it very much.
Other books:
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is brilliant, but an acquired taste. Think Jane Austen meets Neil Gaiman.
I recently reviewed Singularity Sky and enjoyed it, I plan ...
Wuthering Heights
Little Women
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
I tried to read Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell last year, but after 100 or so pages I stopped. I've kept in on my list to read, but I don't know when I will try again.
Did you like Fingersmith? I have almost bought it and I've checked it out from the library before, but never seem to get ...
hi there,
I started Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell but abandoned it, not in the right frame of mind I guess. I'll be waiting to see how you get along with it and maybe I'll try it again.
... 1
Don Quixote – 1
Ex Libris – 1
The Golden Bowl – 1
House of Mirth – 1
Half of a Yellow Sun – 1
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell – 1
The Lizard Cage – 1
Main Street– 1
Moll Flanders – 1
Phantom of the Opera – 1
Portrait of a Lady – 1
The Secr ...
Another suggestion: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell by Susanna Clarke
... really, now I feel so much better. I think my average length book will be much increased this year now. I want to read Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell at some point, so that'll fit in perfectly. :p
Beeg> Thanks for the encouragement! It's crappy to have quit, but there are worse ...
... 5 are in order, after that it's free-for-all.
The Great Gatsby
The Grapes of Wrath
The Secret History
1984
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
And Then There Were None
To Kill A Mockingbird
His Dark Materials
Good Omens
From Russia With Love
Small Gods
Murder in M ...
... I shouldn't waste reading time with something bad, but I just keep thinking it must get better. I wish I had abandoned, Jonathan Strange & Memory Keepers Daughter.
Reading this topic I noticed I too have put down Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and not picked it up again. I liked it ...
... by Lewis Carroll (have read when younger, but wish to read again)
4. The nature of monsters by Clare Clark
5. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
6. Young Will: the confessions of William Shakespeare by Bruce Cook
7. Sylvia by Bryce Courtenay
8. The ...
... if that's okay
The Great Gatsby
The Grapes of Wrath
The Secret History
1984
And Then There Were None
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
From Russia With Love
Good Omens
To Kill A Mockingbird
His Dark Materials
... 50 book pace, which I'm not. If I continue at this rate, I'll finish 33.89 books or 9705.8 pages in the year.
I started Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke, which is something I've been meaning to read for a while. The first chapter is good, but it's a long book.
I think I can only come up w/ four:
The Wizard of the Crow by Ngugi wa Thiongo
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clark
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Solzenitsyn
Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Were any of them even published last year? No ...
No question, no debate, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell .
That book was just so perfect in its construction, its language, the characters, and the absolute skill with which she interwove British history with folklore and her own style of magic.
Also, on a more socio-political level, I love ...
... copy weighs in at 562 pages, although the copy I actually own is over eight hundred), waiting with bated breath to read Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell , and I decided months ago that the first book I read after graduation will be Don Quixote! Exciting.
... zal het boek niet snel weer oppakken.
Niet uitgelezen... o.a. Nevelen van Avalon, Foucault's pendulum, Dante club en Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
I can certainly recommend Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell . Did anyone read the Ladies of Grace Adieu by the same author? I was wondering about that one.
Little, Big, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell , Elantris.
Oooo. Watership Down, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell , Foucault's Pendulum. I'll have to go poke around in the basement to see what else is stand-alone...
I'd say The Lions of Al-Rassan, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell , and a bit of an obscure selection, Lords of the Sky by Angus Wells. I don't read a lot of non-series fantasy, but I've read each of these several times and they've held up very well.
I have Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke on my bookstand. I read about three quarters but had to give up -it was too long and I had to go on to something else. I think that I will go back to it -but just not now. I also have Mortals by Norman Rush half-way read but ...
Category List Update:
Replaced Book: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell by Susanna Clarke - England (in progress).
Replaced With: The Rossetti Letter by Christi Phillips
Reason for Replacement: I removed this book because I'm trying to visit all the countries in the world through ...
Ditto Perdido Street Station and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell . I didn't make it through either one. Could have been my mood, could have been the characters. Also Emma by Jane Austen, and there I KNOW it was the characters. I love Jane Austen, but I couldn't stand Emma. Now I can say I' ...
I have to second Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell . I really expected to love it and I just got so bogged down waiting for something, anything to happen that I finally gave up before finishing it.
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - I only got halfway through this before I realized I was torturing myself. I did like the footnotes, and the plot was promising, but the writing completely turned me off.
1. The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke .
2. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss.
3. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling.
... of short stories about magic, almost like fairy tales. Jonathan Strange and the Raven King both pop up. It isn't as good as Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell , but is still very enjoyable.
@137 lisacharlotte18 - I didn't even know that Susanna Clarke had published more than just Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell . Let me know if The Ladies of Grace Adieu is as good.
... finished reading Middlemarch, which I loved, and now reading The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke. I loved Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell so hopefully I'll enjoy this.
I haven't read:
12 Pride and Prejudice
16 Jane Eyre
20 To Kill a Mockingbird
24 Twilight
27 Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
... on the list that I don't have are:
17. Angels and Demons
22. The Chronicles of Narnia
26. A Wrinkle in Time
27. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
29. Artemis Fowl
Another group member who has read one of these books could (without spoiling) explain why it might be really great.
...
Finished Marked this morning. I tried to pick up Strange and Norell but just couldn't get into it....I seem to be moving into a YA fantasy phase at the moment so best to just run with it for a time.
I absolutely loved Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell precisely for its detail and alternative history, but know a few people who were put off by that.
> 114 I tried to read the sea, the sea and could not get into it all, however I count the bell amongst my favourite books.
Anyone read a ...
Finished Journal of the Curious Letters this morning...and picked Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell back up. I've neglected those two for far too long.
... The Journal of the Curious Letters on the morning commute. Review/Thoughts on it to come shortly. I plan on moving onto Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell next - I started it months ago and should finish it. I'll also be continuing on with Sephardi Entrepreneurs.
Best fiction: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Worst fiction: No contest - House of Leaves
Non Fiction-
Best: Eats, Shoots and Leaves
Worst: The Devil in the White City A big disappointment to me.
I picked up three new books today: If You Could See Me Now by Cecelia Ahern, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clark, and Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys by Kate Brian. And the best part is that Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell was only $7.00 for a hardcover on clearance at B ...
... n
Catch me if you can by Stan Redding
While I was gone by Sue Miller
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke
The sacred bones : a novel by Michael Byrnes
Significant others by Armistead Maupin
Lottery by Patricia Wood
Easter Island by Jennifer ...
... Beauty by McKinley is an old favorite of mine, as are the Earthsea books by LeGuin. On the other hand, I started Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell and never got past the first bit, and I really didn't care for The Story of Forgetting. I also really like Dumas and King, so I'll keep ...
... to strike The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency from my list but I'm still looking forward to getting to both The Stand and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (only thing holding me back so far are the daunting sizes.) I'll have to take a look for your challenge (I really need to catch up on the ...
... mythology and pre-existing legends, like what Neil Gaiman does in a lot of his books. I also go gaga over Victoriana (Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell ), court intrigue (A Song of Ice and Fire), and characters with fluid sexualities (Kushiel's Legacy).
#7 The ladies of Grace Adieu - Susanna Clarke
Today I finally got to finish The ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke. I couldn't help but feeling at first that maybe I should've read Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell before reading this book. This one was much easier to pick up however, as it ...
... in the 50 Book Challenge group for a short write up of it. My initial plan was to either start War and Peace or finish Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell next but I had to bring my work computer home last night and so didn't feel like lugging around the added weight of those two heavy tomes in ...
...
3. The Wonder Spot - Melissa Bank 27/03
4. Special Topics in Calamity Physics - Melissa Pessl
5. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
6.
7.
8.
... Pratchett
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Reaper Man by Terry ...
I'm still in a holding pattern with Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell . The book is just so heavy....and its been so cold outside that I haven't wanted to carry it with me on the train. I need to see if maybe I can exchange my hardcover copy for a paperback. I'll have to check out the BPL catalog ...
... Sudan
8. Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres - Greece, Italy
Books that were replaced from the list:
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell by Susanna Clarke - England (in progress).
-->I removed this book because I'm trying to visit all the countries in the world through ...
... was a delicious romp, which hit all the right notes, without falling into the trying-too-hardness of something like Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell or The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters.
... Beowulf
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Jungle Books
The Lost World
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
The Gormenghast Trilogy
Steven King's The Dark Tower
The Complete Adventures of Conan the Barbarian
The list is long, but the ...
... love the fact that both young adults and adults can enjoy them. Looking at your list from last year, I have readThe Stand Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell and the only one I did not enjoy was The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency although it seems that the author is quite poular, so I have tried ...
... with The Golden Compass
And some grown-up books:
- Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon
- Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
- Lois McMaster Bujold's Chalion Series, starting with The Curse of Chalion
Finally, I'm not 100% sure these count as fantasy, but I've ...
... TBD
Award Winning Books
1.The Golden Compass – Carnegie Medal
2. Suite Francaise – 2004 Prix Renandot
3. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell – Hugo and World Fantasy Award
4. The Book Thief – Jewish Book Award
5. Homestead – Rosina Lippi -Pen/ Hemingway
6. Prep – ...
#33 fleela, I'll second you on both A Game of Thrones (loved it!) and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell . I didn't even finish it. I got slightly past half way and just gave up out of sheer boredom.
... it all.
Fiction
Best: A Game of Thrones - masterful worldbuilding AND character development! Hooray!
Worst: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - the author should stick to writing footnotes. She's much better at that than she is at moving a plot along.
... It's been sitting on my shelf for a year or so, mocking me, I might try and tackle it this year.
#22 and #26 RE-reading Jonathan Strange yikes! It was on my clunker list a couple of years ago, it took everything in my power to finish the book. And I mean everything, I even switched from ...
#22 I've been eying my huge hardcover edition of Jonathan Strange and thinking of "rereading" it too. (The first time was on audiobook, and I think I will get a whole new take on it now by reading the book.)
I finished Parke Godwin's Sherwood (do not trust this touchstone) and started a reread of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell . I will also be starting the sequel to Sherwood, Robin and the King.
888 Challenge
Most of these I’ll read in an attempt to whittle down my Library of Congress and Dewey Challenges. Remember, these are goals. I tend to be a bit more eclectic in my readings-this is exacerbated by the fact that I'm a librarian and have constant access to new books in all these ...
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell has some great library descriptions. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova also has a few good library scenes, although they aren't exactly central to the story. And one of my favorite "rooms full of books" is the cemetery of forgotten books in The Shadow of ...
54. How to be Good by Nick Hornby
55. A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
56. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
... it's just Día de Reyes) gift for myself in the mail:
Mort by Terry Pratchett
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Reaper Man by Terry Pratche ...
I'm aiming for 100 books in '08. I have several huge tomes on my TBR pile - War and Peace, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell , Middlemarch, among others - but I'm also retiring in October (yes!!!!!!!), so I think the two will balance out.
I also plan to:
*read more classics that I ...
... :-) I'm pretty excited! I have a weird idea in my head that it's a cross between the movie The Prestige and the book Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell .
... reviews so far, so I'm very much looking forward to it.
2008 will find me reading a few doorstoppers: Anna Karenina, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell and the new translation of War and Peace (actually a first read for me, so what do I know of new translation???). Also on deck, more Jan ...
... might have to change.
The Invisible Ring by Anne Bishop
Dreams Made Flesh by Anne Bishop
Dhampir by Barb Hendee
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell by Susanna Clarke
... do it for me include The Wind in the Willows, any Agatha Christie mystery and oddly enough books like Moby Dick and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is the only book I've given up on in a very long time.
Yah, Joyce, except -- I have War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell and Middlemarch on my TBR-soon pile; a bunch of doorstops! That'll slow down my numbers considerably! Maybe I'll read novellas in between.
... The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire, 20th Century Ghosts, Why Buildings Fall Down, Why Buildings Stand Up, and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell . There are others, too.
It's fun to wander up and down my shelves (or, now, browse my library on librarything!) and find something ...
>#71 teelgee: Do enjoy Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell ! I loved it.
Cariola, your tips were great. I'm saving them, if I may.
... Daedalus):
Musicophilia : Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
War and Peace - the new translation
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke.
Need to do some weight training before I tackle the last two - they weigh a ton!
... char
Hollywood Babylon: Kenneth Anger
An Introduction to Ethics (University Paperbacks)
by William Lillie
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Little Infamies : Stories by Panos Karnezis
Longitude by ...
... catalogue search. It's way too slow to search all and the search syntax isn't clear. I just tried about five times to find Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell in my catalogue, and eventually gave up and used the general search page. I later found that searching just "jonathan strange" does bring up ...
... Beautiful Lies in New York City and have hopped into my time machine to travel to 19th Century England for a visit with Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell .
... it. =)
I've also recently picked up the second and third books in the series. I think that once I am done with Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell that I'll read them.
... and Rider series by Sharon Shinn
The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Sorcery and Cecilia by Patricia C Wrede and Caroline Stevermer
Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
No ...
... from The Vampire Chronicles
Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) - Pirates of The Caribbean
Jonathan Strange And Mr. Norrell Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Napoleon Dynamite - I like nerds sometimes.
Legolas - Lord of The Rings the movie. The book version I found creepy until I saw Orlan ...
The information is often in the publication field
e.g. "Bloomsbury (2005), Paperback" appears there for Jonathan Strange and mr Norrell when entered from amazon.co.uk.
... popular books, at least one of whose subject headings is London--fiction.
1984 by George Orwell (15,120 copies)
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (7,548 copies)
The golden compass by Philip Pullman (6,948 copies)
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (6,628 ...
... chance, but it was either discovering Terry Pratchett or that, and you know how that turned out by my library list...)
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Northern Lights (I have a second hand paperback of the first book, never got to read it)
Any other Fantasy books I should check out?
16. The Maxx, Volume 1, by Sam Kieth and Messner-Loebs
17. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell , by Susanna Clarke
I second Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell ! It was great, but only if your a fan of that kind of thing. I can't say that I liked the illustrations at all but the the footnotes were entertaining and illuminating. If you liked that book I recommend her latest one, The Ladies of Grace Adieu. Also I ...
Of course, there's Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanne Clarke, but that's quite a commitment.
... in me that just doesn't like to give up on a book once I've started it. And sometimes I'm really glad I stayed with a book. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell was like that for me. It started slowly and seemed dry, but as I kept reading, I became more and more involved with the characters and ...
I found a used Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell at a darling bookstore on Vashon Is. (near Seattle). The bookstore sells both new and used books and does a brisk trade. People buy a book, read it, sell it back to the store, and buy another book. I think the combining of used and new is quite a ...
... and between other genres. I like very much the books of Thorne Smith (ie Night Life of the Gods), and I also loved Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke. And I'm absolutely thrilled that the "Library of Babel" by Jorge Luis Borges (not the short story, but his ...
I just read Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke and liked it a lot. It's different from any other fantasy novel I know, but it's epic, exciting and very well written.
... it takes. It is probably my favourite book, and definitely one of the best I have ever read.
Phlox72, I really enjoyed Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell .
... I still have a chapter and a half, the appendices, bibliograpy, and notes to read.
Robert
P.s. I thought that Jonathan Strange... was really weak.
R.
... been impressed by a good book lately? How about writing a brief recommendation.
My most recent pleasant surprise has been Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell . Is it for everyone? Certainly not. In fact I'm somewhat hard pressed to say exactly why I found the book so captivating. It tells a ...
... I think it depends on the book whether or not you can "concentrate." Last year, I had the worst time trying to listen to Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell . My mind definitely wandered and when it came out in mass market paperback, I gave up the effort and read the blasted book! It took me a ...
Mr. Norrell from Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell . Not because I hoard books, but because I can feel detached and introspective sometimes. And I often prefer the company of books over people. Perhaps if I met someone masochistic enough, I would even enjoy talking about books with them ad nauseum. ...
... of this to January 2007. I'll work at it as I have time. Perhaps too ambitious but here we go:
January 2007
1. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
A slow, careful read, perfect for a snowy January, this world captured me gently but surely. Magicians in this Engla ...
Adding my drops to the bucket:
The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner
Slaughterhouse Five by Vonnegut
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell by Susanna Clarke
The Harry Potter books Rowling
... sound of rain falling outside
Cold days
Books that are a total, wonderful, amazingly pleasant surprise. Here's to you Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
57. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke. 9/8
58. Riptide by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. 9/21
... properly) -- it was a heavy read, but worth it.
Still deciding what I'll read next, but meanwhile, I'm listening to Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell .
Edited to try and fix touchstone
Mr. Norrell said nothing.
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
... e
Little, Big
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Eyre Affair
Jane Eyre
Little Women
Ender's Game
Fahrenheit 451
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
The Stand
Good LT suggestion - The Historian
Disappointing LT suggestion - Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
... kind of thing I usually enjoy, and ended up absolutely loving! These include:
The Book Thief
The Road
Twilight
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Pride and Prejudice (yes, I confess, I hadn't read it until just this year)
The Wallflower series by Lisa Kleypas
The Artemis Fowl ...
... don't remember it being a big disappointment, just not terribly interesting.
I too bought into the reviews pre-LT about Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell . All the papers and magazines raved so I thought it might just be the thing for me. Snooze-fest. If she had chopped it down to about a ...
... The Six Wives of Henry the VIII -- I liked it alright but a bit tedious as non-fiction tends to be for me.
#56 - Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell does get better. It just takes a while to get sucked into that book, but your patience is rewarded.
I am reading two great books so far. ...
... fantasy today. Luther, for example, truly believed in witches and was terrified by them.
I second the recommendation of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell . It gets off to a slow start, and the first time I picked it up I didn't stick with it quite long enough for it to grab me. But the second ...
#4 - you are making me think of the wonderful footnotes in Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell .
Bouf Fellow, whose beard was so flourishing that it extended all the way down his shoulder blades.
Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrell wins by a long shot! I COULD NOT put it down for petty things like sleeping, studying, etc.
Lots of books on this thread are on my wish list!
Gah! No computer at home for weeks! Here's my updates:
12.) Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
LOVED IT! Should not have read this the first week of school- I could not put it down, it was so riveting! Creepy without being scary, magical without being silly-loved it! ...
Nice to see a crochet group here. Currently reading A Winter Haunting by Dan Simmons. Waiting for my copy of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell to arrive.
... pleasant: anything by Angela Thirkell and Barbara Pym, mysteries by Dorothy Sayers and Margery Allingham, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke.
... any of them. So I've exerted some discipline and have chosen to keep reading We need to talk about Kevin and have put Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell , Atonement and The Winter Rose back on the bookshelf.
Disappointing, eh? Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell . It was the first book I picked up on recommendation of other LTers and I don't think I'll be doing that again without more research of my own. I think my tastes are just too divergently varied and quirky to go solely on the ravings of ...
Hey there:
Obviously some great books above. For myself my favorites would be:
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven
and Childhood's end by Arthur C. Clarke
There are many ...
... stop buying books and what happens? people start giving me books instead!
I swapped a book with a co-worker
She gave me Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell and in return I gave her The curious incident of the dog in night-time what a hoot! One is so skinny the other is a door stop. I'm so glad ...
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke is all falling leaves and drinking tea in musty libraries to me. And the last Moomin book by Tove Jansson, Sent i november in Swedish, is perfect for, well, November.
... on the chair next to the printer cabinet is my iPod which contains the following audiobooks: The Road, Jane Eyre, Jonathan Strange , Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception, Find Me, Cod by Kurlansky, Dark Guardian by Feehan, and Dark Assassin by Perry.
... well follow up on. And I've just started into both Vikram Chandra's Sacred Games, which will be my longest read since Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell and so far looks a lot more promising; and Strategy Safari by Henry Mintzberg et al as background for an article I have to write - I ...
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke. Big, fat, character development, descriptions; check, check, check, check to all the above.
... stories that really looks great on a shelf is The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stores by Susanna Clarke (writer of Jonathan Strange and Mister Norrell ). Not only that, but one of the stories is actually based in the world Neil Gaiman created for the book Stardust (touchstone not ...
The Troublesome Priest: Harold Davidson, the Rector of Stiffkey by Jonathan Tucker
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
Dr Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
The Trumpet-Major by Thomas Hardy
Taxi Driver by Paul Schrader
... no, I'll never finish" and give up again. Of course, this problem makes no sense since I decided to read the equally long Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell instead. Something about it makes it read just a tad faster, for some reason.
... the B&N where I finally found Fool Moon. Bought it, of course, along with Grave Peril, as well as the hardcovers of Jonathan Strange and Killing Critics which were on the bargain shelves and which I could not resist. As soon as I got home and put away the groceries, I let the rest of ...
... the other books in the series that were in stock as well. Then, on the way to the cash register, I saw the hardcovers of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell and Killing Critics on the bargain shelves and picked up those too.
And this is a woman who has not purchased more than dozen ...
... like Bridge of Birds and Little Sister.
Similarly, I love fantasy set in Regency or Victorian England, like Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell and Sorcery and Cecelia.
RE elemental magic: There's also the Elemental Logic series by Laurie J. Marks, starting with Fire Logic. ...
... with a discussion group. The group has other obligations to attend to, so it will probably be finished in september.
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell , by Susanna Clarke (782 pages) Comments: This is the book I'm focusing on now. It's a realtively quick read, considering the other books ...
regarding Vietnam, the literature of war and its effects on the soldiers who suffer through...i highly recommend Jonathan Shay 's Achilles in Vietnam...written by a clinician who treated Vietnam Vets with PTSD ;he compares and sources the The Iliad.thoughtful and universal in its scope.
the ...
Start Date: Aug 4th, '07
Currently Reading (starting tomorrow):
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
The Aeneid by Publius Vergilius Maro (aka Virgil)
... Aeneid, by Publius Vergilius Maro (aka Virgil), trans. by Robert Fagles, intro. by Bernard Knox. Audiobook format.
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell , by Susanna Clarke.
... to use it where I think it won't cause confusion.
On the spelling of "chuse", I believe Susannah Clarke used it in Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell (punctuated that way on the cover), in addition to several other archaic spellings, so although this was purely for the antiquated effect, ...
Maybe it doesn't count since it's still technically Earth, but I'd live in the 19th century England of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell -- because it would be like living in a Jane Austen book, but with the addition of Magic. :) It has enough detail to it that you could almost believe it to be ...
I've only got 100 pages to go to finish Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell , so I'm reading a couple of shorter novels with contemporary settings so I won't finish JS&MN too soon: You Don't Love Me Yet and "Adam Haderburg" by Yasmina Reza (in English translation).
... this, but as a continuation of this one. Oddly enough, nothing is jumping into my mind -- one possiblity though would be Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell -- I just think it is very original and ingenious.
Look Homeward Angel by Thomas Wolfe
Smile Please by Jonathan Keates
Kiss Me Deadly by Susan Kearney
Go by John Clellan Holmes
Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
... standpoint, in my opinion. To be safe (or maybe stupid), I bought one of each U.S. cover as I feared a repetition of the Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell supposed cream cover scarcity (I personally think that was a rumor started by some bookseller, somewhere).
Anyway, the book was quite ...
... that combine fantasy or sci-fi with myths and history (any time period or place). I have stuff by neil gaiman and Jonathan strange and Mister Norell , what else might be promising?
... Hallows, but was VERY let down as I explain in my review. http://www.librarything.com/review/18660570 I already have Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell but I would like recs for something similar:
Fantasy or sci-fi mixed with myths or historical fiction (any place/period)
Long stuff is ...
I've been plodding through Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell a few pages at a time unwilling to completely let it go for the last two years so I may as well give it up. I love fantasy and history. Normally, the topic would have been my cup of tea, but it is such a serious drag I can't go on.
... with what I thought of the readers:
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (read by John Gonzales) - not bad
The Adventuresof Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (read by John Greenman) - not bad
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (read by Annie Coleman) - pretty ...
How about Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell ? It's postively ENORMOUS!
Ah ... its already mid-2007, but what the heck:
favorite: Jonathan Strange ... really well done, even with the footnotes. I also liked American Gods.
Worse: Planet India ... the narration was terrible. I am from India and the narratar pronounced some words so poorly, I didn't realize ...
I've reread Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell a couple of times on rainy afternoons; find it tends to fit my moods those days.
I've been trying to read Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell for two years. I can only make it a few pages before I fall asleep. At this rate it's going to take at least 15 years.
Someone brought me The Da Vinci Code when I was in the hospital a few years ago to keep me entertained. I got as ...
... for several jewish authors amongst them: philip roth, isaac b singer, joseph heller, harold bloom, cynthia ozick, jonathan safan foer and his wife nicole krauss, paul auster, arthur a cohen, henry roth, martin buber, etc.
... on the American Psyche
The Complete Bartender
High Spirits: A Celebration of Scotch, Bourbon, Cognac and More
Old Mr. Boston's Guide to Bartending
I finished Possession by Byatt -- good but not great. Faux scholarship drives me crazy a la Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell . And the poetry -- most of it was truly dreadful IMHO.
I just started The Woman in White per some recommendations on the 1001 novels group. It's a pretty thick book ...
The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci by Jonathan Spence contains a detailed explanation of how to construct a "memory palace" as a mnemonic device. I tried to construct such a palace. but to no avail. In one of the rooms, however, I did discover all my lost socks.
Somehow Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell left me totally disappointed. There also was a recent book on the Alamo, title currently repressed, Oh my goodness....I forgot the Alamo...which put me to sleep within three pages any time I attempted to read it.
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
Mr. Bridge and Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell
Two Little Girls in Blue by Mary Higgins Clark
Love Sick: A Smoldering Look at Love, Lust, and Marriage by Michael J. Nelson
... books were shorts stories about life on the reservation. Probably only humerous to those familiar with AI humor.
14. Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norell Clarke,Susanna 1009 pages
I didn't like it, wouldn't recommend it and it took forever to finish, but was just good enough I felt I ...
... fans thought of this book - I was disappointed; it bored me. I think it's my least favorite Kinsey Milhone novel.)
8. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
9. Understanding Gamers (The Collected Dork Tower, Vol. 5) - John Kovalic
10. Fables Vol. 9: Sons of Empire - ...
... 400 pages into Free Food For Millionaires by Min Jin Lee. Last year on vacation, I read 3 books, and one of them was Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrell , which is around 900 pages! Of course, last year we went from Saturday to Saturday, and this year it was Monday to Friday, and the Tiptree ...
From #2, here is the cat excerpt from Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (pg. 581) that is quite funny if your cats are anything like mine:
To set the stage: our main characters come upon an old woman in an apartment surrounded by her cats.
“But I do not understand,” said Strange, “Who ...
Ok, had to edit since I misread the thread topic. Don't have any book excerpts off hand, but will dig up a good one from Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell and add it later.
For now, a favorite quote by an author:
"One cat just leads to another." Hemingway
... it's embarrassing. Wuthering Heights - aargh! Who could read that stuff? (OK, don't all shout at once!)
Oh, and Jonathan Strange was a battle, because I wanted to read it in bed and without my glasses on (I could just about manage when I read it last year) and all those footnotes ...
I had a very tough time with The Faerie Queene when I had to read it for school. I couldn't get into Jonathan Strange and Mrs. Norrell when I tried it a year or so ago, perhaps because of unreasonably high expectations based on recommendations. And I know some people love Cryptonomicon, but ...
I have to say that I enjoyed Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell very much. Maybe because nobody warned me that I was supposed to love it, lol. It's true that the 19th-century talk is a bit artificial, but it worked for me, and I really liked how the author manages to make the characters lovable ...
... for much of the time, so I will get some reading done. Last year I read three books on vacation, and one of them was Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrell at 782 pages. This year I think I will bring shorter books, so I can bring my total up!
Gmork, I think you should count audio books if ...
... A holdout from my teen years. His Gaea Trilogy was fascinating to me and I still cosider them some of my favorite books.
Jonathan Stroud - A fairly new discovery. I just finished his Bartimaeus Trilogy and loved it. Superior to Harry Potter in every aspect.
Stephen King - While Stepen Kin ...
Hello! I'm 16, and my favorite books are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell , Little, Big, The Mists of Avalon, and Swordspoint.
booklady2266, I LOVED Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell !!!!
I am approximately 1/8th of the way through Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell , which has been pretty good so far. A wee daunting, so I'm not practicing my normal habit of reading 2+ books at the same time.
... I always get a lot of reading in during that time. Plus, last year on vacation I read three books, and one of them was Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke. If I bring some shorter books this year, I should be able to do 4 or 5, so that will be an opportunity to catch up ...
#170 ~ Never read & listened concurrently, but it sounds like fun. I considered reading hard copies of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell , The Book Thief, and Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time after having listened to them on audio, but maybe I'll try doing both at once.
One contemporary book I've read three times is Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke. Which, given how long it is, and how many footnotes there are, is saying something.
I must say I liked Eats, Shoots and Leaves and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell very much.
As for the highly acclaimed one I hated, it would have to be The Catcher In The Rye. I kept waiting for something interesting to happen and it never did.
... a toss-up for me between 3:
1. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
2. A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe
3. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susannah Clarke
This week I have been reading The Land of Laughs by Jonathan Carroll , and The Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill. Both books are excellent, and The Heart-Shaped Box proved to be extremely gripping - I read it from start to finish last night - I can highly recommend it for fans of horror/dark ...
... worked out (they sell more now). We also shelved books in more than one place if we thought it offered some advantage... Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell , for example.
Abarat by Clive Barker
The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud
Redwall books by Brian Jacques
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
So many good ones already mentioned and so many more than can be list here. I have found many great books just by ...
... char
Hollywood Babylon: Kenneth Anger
An Introduction to Ethics (University Paperbacks)
by William Lillie
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Little Infamies : Stories by Panos Karnezis
Longitude by ...
... personal American journey by Sandi Toksvig
Guns, germs and steel by Jared Diamond
Holes by Louis Sachar
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Me talk pretty one day by David Sedaris
Mr Starlight by L ...
One of my favorite memories was the 'intro to math' class taught by mr. trombley . We looked at mathematical systems as a creative intellectual enterprise. Set theory, symbolic logic, truth tables and number systems were strange then, and I knitted furiously in class since I didn't understand ...
Jonathan Lethem 's You Don't Love Me...Chapter 3 was phone sex disguised as performance art.
the book is full of snappy dialogue that keeps the story moving along. So far it is a quick, light read. My first try with this author - looks like he is worth exploring. I do have Motherless Brook ...
... Clark - A birthday gift from my son, I was surprised to enjoy this book as much as I did. More stories in the vein of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell .
2. Diners, Bowling Alleys, and Trailer Parks by Andrew Hurley - This one was a recommendation from my daughter, who read it for one ...
I don't generally like fantasy myself, but do like the HP books. My suggestions would be Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell and The Mists Of Avalon.
... personal American journey by Sandi Toksvig
Guns, germs and steel by Jared Diamond
Holes by Louis Sachar
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Me talk pretty one day by David Sedaris
Mr Starlight by L ...
Really? I loved Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell but didn't like the ending - had the feeling she was paving the way for a sequel. I liked the footnotes style but can see how others wouldn't.
I'm finishing up Bleak House by Charles Dickens, and also have London: the novel by Edward Rutherfurd, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke on my list.
However, I do have to admit to adding a few "light reads" to the list on purpose just to make sure I got to my ...
... Eugenides
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
I've already read:
The Name of the Rose - Umbert ...
Oh yes, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell was another one that I gave up on recently. It slipped my mind, because it wasn't as bad as the others - it just wasn't my kind of thing. Funny, because I usually like both fantasy and Napoleonic fiction, but the book just didn't work for me.
... personal American journey by Sandi Toksvig
Guns, germs and steel by Jared Diamond
Holes by Louis Sachar
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Me talk pretty one day by David Sedaris
Mr Starlight by L ...
This month at Timeless Tales we are reading Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke. Feel free to stop in and discuss this great science fiction novel.
http://groups.msn.com/TimelessTales/_whatsnew.msnw
Perhaps she might try The ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke. In the same line of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (which I LOVED!), it is a shorter book, a set of stories, quite pleasant and well written. I am sure she will like it.
#28
I wouldn't recommend Jonathan Strange and Mr.Norell . At least for me it turned out to be rather heavy going after a while. Since she isn't a big reader yet, I would stay with "fun" books at first and move to Clarke later.
I second Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell . The audiobook, read by Simon Prebble, is the best audiobook I've heard. I adored it.
... personal American journey by Sandi Toksvig
Guns, germs and steel by Jared Diamond
Holes by Louis Sachar
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Mr Starlight by Laurie Graham
The Alchemist by Paulo Coel ...
... personal American journey by Sandi Toksvig
Guns, germs and steel by Jared Diamond
Holes by Louis Sachar
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Mr Starlight by Laurie Graham
The Alchemist by Paulo Coel ...
... don't have enough time to devote to reading anymore to read something just because I "should".
That's why I gave up on Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell halfway through the book. Why force myself to finish when I wasn't enjoing a bit of it; even though it was so highly touted here on LT.
I ...
... personal American journey by Sandi Toksvig
Guns, germs and steel by Jared Diamond
Holes by Louis Sachar
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Mr Starlight by Laurie Graham
The Alchemist by Paulo Coel ...
... my brother suggested I get my feet wet with The Three Musketeers first. Other big books I'd like to get to this year are Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell and The Mists of Avalon; both have been sitting on my shelf unread for a while now.
... to re-read The Lord of the Rings, but I thought "It'll put you behind target, and besides, it's a re-read." I did read Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell , though, and it was probably my best book of 2006.
This year, I've decided not to worry about length - since I've read 23 books and it's ...
... Hiaasen
Gladys reunited:a personal American journey by Sandi Toksvig
Guns, germs and steel by Jared Diamond
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Mr Starlight by Laurie Graham
The Alchemist by Paulo Coel ...
Just finished Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke Wonderful page turner with Austin language and imagery, historical events "explained" via magic, and an unfolding story of what is magic and the relationship to the fairy-folk. Plus lots of side swipes at empty book thinking ...
I'm joining the 'I Hate The Historian Club'. I had to force myself to read all of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell 's excruciatingly agonizing thousand pages. (sorry to those who liked it but I was totally bored). Same for The Rule of Four, which had a hugely disappointing ending. It's more of ...
... of the Calla is around 700, Song of Susannah is around a thousand and The Dark Tower is about 550.
Thinking about Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell too. And of course the last Harry Potter book which I'm sure will be a pretty huge read, if the increasing sizes of her previous books are ...
... Woods by Tim O'Brien, anything by Iris Murdoch and, despite the fact that I'm not a big fan of fantasy fiction, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell .
... to just over 400, which isn't too bad.
I've been debating whether I should try and tackle some of the bigger stuff like Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell or if I should save that for next year. Perhaps if I maintain my current pace I will (21/150 for 2007, 14% done)
... are:
Jamestown, the buried truth by William M. Kelso (in honor of the 400th anniversery of Jamestown this year)
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Portuguese Irregular Verbs by Alexander McCall Smith
Under the Black Flag by David Cordingly
The Lost ...
... by Patricia C. Wrede, which I finished up this morning, and thoroughly enjoyed it. For everyone who likes the idea of the Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell universe but "bounced off" the 800 pages, this one's set in almost the exact same universe but is a lot more light-hearted and fun (geared ...
Count me among the people who bounced off Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell .
Anyway, I just finished USS Ranger (so-so) and will be starting Storm of Steel.
I also enjoyed Jonathan Strange and hope for a sequel. BTW, I thought it was set during the Napoleanic Wars, which, I believe, was in the 1800s, not the 1600s. :)
Just finished The Book Thief which I have put on my Top 10 Books of All Time list. An amazing read ~ wonderful writing, good ...
I loved Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell and have finally started Clarke's follow up, a collection of short pieces written world, The Ladies of Grace Adieu. I am expecting this week-end to consist of a peaceful Saturday and a somewhat crazed Sunday and have planned to read the above mentioned ...
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I got to the end of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell it's quite a relief to read something lighter. I wasn't terribly impressed and shan't be looking Susanna Clarke out. True she created a ...... spend way to much time re-reading books, I love it but I need som new authors! Anyway, I've read: Tipping the Velvet and Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell . But I'm starting a new one tonight!
... Lewis CarrollBack more or less on time-track this week, it's just 11:35pm here. I'm still working my way through Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell just past the half-way mark and still finding I'm counting the pages left in each chapter - never a good sign.
On my London trip though ...
... else, but for the life of me can't remember what it was.
I'm now debating what to read next, I'm thinking of either Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell or Peter and the Shadow Thieves, but both of them are rather massive and heavy, and hard to carry around with one when going to the ...
... which are stand alone.
Some possiblities:
Fledgling Octavia Butler
Islands in the Net Bruce Sterling
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell Susanna Clarke
the Sparrow Mary Doria Russell oops there is a sequel.
Dhalgren Samuel R. Delany
#s 1, 7, & 9 ~ I really enjoyed Jonathan Strange , even including the footnotes, which I found fun and not at all distracting. In fact, I thought they made the book read much more like a "true" history of magic than it would have without. Her writing style also appealed to me, but I do admit ...
GreyHead - My son gave me a copy of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell , but I haven't started reading it yet. It's in my ever growing "to be read" stack.
My time has been very short lately so I have not been reading much. *hiding head in shame* I'm reading The Dark is Rising and hope to ...
... Joy AdamsonSorry, I'm off on the road in a few minutes so this is another time-warped week. I've been reading Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke and struggling a bit with it. Partly because it's heavy (literally) and partly because after reading about a third I ...
... Joy AdamsonOn the road again shortly so the week has time-warped itself by a day or so.
I've been reading Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke this week and making slow going, it's heavy (literally) for a paperback and a bit dense - I can't remember when I ...
... the past couple of years; though one doesn't know whether he'll be back, he seems to have an OK time.
I haven't read Jonathan Strange.
... on - Crowley Documentaries
I've read Jonathan Strange , and it's ok but lacks the intectual rigour and style of Crowley. IMO it actually reads like a very very long children's novel.
... been a bit ahead of its time? Surely, Susanna Clarke had to have been aware of it before or during the writing process of Jonathan Strange (which, I've not read but only read about)?
... - I like fantasy and historical fiction - though I seem to have mixed results with alternate histories. This and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell very much fall into the same category.
I've finally given up on Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell , though I may see if I can get hold of a version on tape or disk to listen to in the car. I suppose that I'd like more plot and less atmosphere. Apart from that I'm also reading A Fraternity of Arms and will probably look at Glasshouse ...
I'm 15. Favorite books? Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell , Swordspoint, Harry Potter (of course), American Gods, Twilight,The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime,among other things...I'm an aspiring author, too. Nice to meet y'all.
... post, I listed only four favorite books I read in 2006:
Pride and Prejudice
The Great Gatsby
Never Let Me Go
Jonathan Strange
In December, I read one that I can add to that list:
London by Edward Rutherfurd
Honorable mention to The Penelopiad by Atwood.
(edited to ...
... Peter Ackroyd
Quincunx by Charles Palliser
Alternates:
Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
I'm about a hundred pages into Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell and it's not exactly firing up my imagination; it may simply be that the Napoleonic period is not one of my favorite historical interests.
On the other hand, I did finish up Thunder Run and found it to be as good as advertised.
... reports!
I listened to a few great audiobooks this year. My favorites (that I can recall) were Pride and Prejudice, Jonathan Strange , and Team of Rivals. So far.
Last year's favorites were The Curious Incident, The Egyptologist, and Darkly Dreaming Dexter.
... there is always Harry Potter. We talk about that. And Charles Vess, though he's not an auther. I suppose we also have Susanna Clarke in common, but you don't care for her much. What else do we have in common? J.R.R. Tolkein? Douglas Adams? Pretty mainstream stuff. What do you think of ...
... veggies, but he doesn't actually restrict veggies, so that isn't a tough thing to change.
I hate Tolkein too. I find Strange and Norrell to be more like Possession, except most of the history is made up.
For Greek stuff- have you read Steven Pressfield? I found a book by him The War ...
I'm done with Beasts of Eden and I'm now currently starting the long slog through Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell , though that I'm going to read in daily increments while actually carrying around other books.
I just looked up Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell . I can't believe I hadn't heard of it with 100 reviews.
The books I just can't make it through are by Tolkien (ducking the rotten tomatoes). I've tried three of them at least twice at DH's urging.
Most of the cookbooks I've been ...
#61 - Jonathan Strange is not a postmodern novel, it is simply a fantasy. They are not the same. Postmodern works 'play' with language and narrative.
Having said that, the novel has some major flaws. What I would like to know is who started comparing this work with Jane Austen and Henry J ...
Kageeh-I don't mind postmodernism on the whole, I think that the problem with Jonathan Strange is that it's an sort of imitation to an actual period novel that doesn't work very well.-but I feel better now that I know I'm not the only one.The History of the World however,is just a long ...
... and followed up with a stop at the bargain books section of Chapters and came away with this rather nice little haul:
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
The Captain's Peril by William Shatner
Congo by Michael Crichton
The Beach House by James Patterson ...
>10
I very much enjoyed The Da Vinci Code and I couldn't get past page 50 of Jonathan Strange .
Everyone's tastes are different.
Not sure about Jonathan Strange , personally. That book was insanely long and while it had a good plot... meh.
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke, any book by A.S. Byatt and Rebecca West, Cross Creek by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, any book by Orhan Pamuk.
Pride and Prejudice
The Great Gatsby
Never Let Me Go
Jonathan Strange
Hmm, that's only four, and I can't think of another to list, so I think I'll hold off in case I read another favorite in December.
... instance, I've got Team of Rivals, Angel's Fall by Nora Roberts, The Iliad, When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro, Jonathan Strange , The Historian, and Pride and Prejudice, among many others. I listen on the train commute, when I'm doing boring, rote stuff at work that doesn't need ...
... something, I don't finish it. Therefore, it never gets to the point of hatred.
Recent books I haven't finished:
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Stopped about 40 pages in. Not my style. May try again another time.
Eats, Shoots and Leaves
Finished about half. Got boringly ...
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell var en riktigt bra bok. Framför allt efter sidådär halva, då den tog sig.
För närvarande är det Idun av Johanne Hildebrandt som pryder nattygsbordet, men jag har tyckt att den varit riktigt seg, bitvis. Lätt språk och så, men det är lite lågt ...
Still Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell and The Book of Names but I guess the latter will be finished today or monday at the latest.
... comparing the ratio of "read" and "unread" tags of various works to that of Harry Potter books. It turned out that Jonathan Strange had a very low readability factor....
I just gave in and bought the hardcover edition of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell via amazon.de I don't think I have the time to read a 800 page fat book right now, but I will do it anyway and sleep less instead :P
Another good one I had forgotten is Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke.
... -Ed. David Sedaris
Yarn Harlot by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
Spook by Mary Roach
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Suzanne Clarke
Marley and Me - John Grogan
Gone to the Dogs - Emily Carmichael
Book the 11th: The Grim Grotto: The Ser ...
... to formulate some resolution to finish all the unfinished books I have on my shelf. I have Anil's Ghost Drowning Ruth Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell One Hundred Years of Solitude and a couple of others that I really want to discipline myself into finishing. Maybe that will be my end of ...
... Clarke, The Ladies of Grace Adieu and other stories, I simply could not resist.
Having read and immensely enjoyed Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell I was very much looking forward to another book by her, and now I have it!
I weigh in on the positive side for Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell . It had an admittedly slow start, and it never got heart-poundingly exciting, but it was a very good story and well written. I think it's a work that builds upon itself, and needs time to fully appreciate. It certainly has flaws, ...
I kissed Jonathan Strange... goodbye at page 250 and never looked back, just terminally boring.
mlfhlibrarian, you aren't the only one finding Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell slow going. I've put it down and picked it back up at least a dozen times which requires me to re-read a good portion of it to reestablish where I was in the book and to refresh my memory. I'm determined to finish it, ...
... more time - half way through History of God by Karen Armstrong,just started The Murder Room and still slogging through Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell , though finding it slow going.
Ooooo, then I'm a BIG fan of Prebble! I listened to both The Egyptologist and Jonathan Strange , and they were both excellently done!
I also really like Barbara Rosenblat. She is THE voice of Amelia Peabody et al. in the mystery series by Elizabeth Peters. None of the other readers of ...
... whether it's a historical romance or mystery or straight historical fiction. Only time it's okay is if it's fantasy (like Jonathan Strange ), because I've already suspended all my beliefs before I even begin to read it!
I've got a wip set in the time of Alfred the Great that took me about a ...
I know that Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell has been touted as the "adult" Harry Potter, but I think that's a bad description. Two totally different systems of magic and styles of writing.
However, the book was very good, so I recommend it.
... got the audiotape from the library and listened to it again.
Other books I thought made really good audiobooks include Jonathan Strange some of Lindsay Davis's Falco mysteries, and Bernard Cornwell's The Last Kingdom. Oh, and right now I'm listening to Team of Rivals and loving it ...
... tagged "read," "unread" and "unfinished" as proxy stats to see what books users actually enjoy enough to read. For example Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is both the most "unread" (by far) and "unfinished" book in LT, yet is only the 48th most "read" book. If we also had statistics on which ...
... for Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell ******
As I am a big fan of the Austen/Bronte/Hardy/James, I thought I'd enjoy Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell .
Alas, no. Things just didn't seem to happen. I never felt the strain of tension, the omigodwhatisgoingtohappennext?!? (ok, maybe a ...
... easier and more comfortable to deal with larger books while reading lying down. It may not be enough to interest you in Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell , but you may like it for other weighty bedtime reading.
RhiGirl - there's a whole thread on Jonathan Strange over here .
theclicheherself - I had to read Siddhartha for a high school English class. I remember it being one of those books that's short enough that it's a quick read, ...
I absolutely hate people who call Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell "Harry Potter for adults," but I think people in general who enjoy Harry Potter would enjoy the book if they're not annoyed by its length.
... skold
Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton
Freedom and Necessity by Steve Brust and Emma Bull
War for the Oaks by Emma Bull
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clark (I haven't finished this one yet, but I've liked what I've read)
How are your local used bookstores stocked? There are ...
Just finished Jonathan Strange , and I have to say -- as annoying as it was at first to consume a book in which the main character does not appear until a quarter of the way in, this book came to be a pretty book part of my life for a pretty significant period of time, and while it's by no means ...
I just finished reading Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell and I think it's perfect for adult readers of HP.
Another work that HP earned a lot of comparisons to (and not too little criticism, considering their similarities) is Neil Gaiman's Books of Magic. That's a particular favorite graphic ...
... dislike for His Dark Materials might get in the way of my enjoyment of the audiobooks.
Also, in the audible version of Jonathan Strange , the footnotes are incorporated entirely into the text (without, say, the use of chapter markers).
jonesy - I seem to remember that the footnotes for Jonathan Strange were separate tracks, inserted in the reading right where they were in the text. I don't remember whether or not they said "footnote one" at the start of the track, though.
janehyde - I LOVE the His Dark Materials ...
I also decided to read Jonathan Strange as an audiobook. I really enjoyed it - but then later found out there were footnotes in the book. Someone asked how those were handled - I can't remember the audio pointing them out. Does anyone know? Were they just read at that point in the book? Were they ...
kukkurovaca: I used the audiobook of Jonathan Strange when on the road, and the book when at home. Worked out fine.
... I think you're failing to see what slothman means - how do you 'run a search' for a set of books as varied as Red Mars, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell , American Gods, and Flowers for Algernon - which all appear on that Hugo Winners list - if you haven't already tagged them with ...
... Mathematics (you don't finish off a book like that in one week) but I seem to be re-reading Things Fall Apart and Jonathan Strange . Jonathan Strange is such a big book that I find there is loads of interesting stuff I have completely forgotten.
Regarding Hackers and Painters, Ma ...
A popular book I recently tried to finish but just couldn't: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell . Talk about affected. Too many characters, with either no character development, or inconsistent development.
"Classics" I hated: Wuthering Heights, My Antonia, The Chocolate War, Native Son. ...
I've actually started Jonathan Strange as an audiobook recently (partly because I like the idea of reading the most unread book on lt) and am enjoying it immensely.
The idea of the Silmarillion as an audiobook seems odd, although maybe it's just been too long since I've poked about in it.
... was much easier on audiobook than it was printed (and I've done both), and I've heard the same is true for Jonathan Strange as well.
jargoneer, the case of Jonathan Strange is a particularly amusing one, given that Susanna Clarke has stated that she regards it as a work of fantasy -- in contrast to, say, Kurt Vonnegut, who doth protest too much, as it were, that his works are not to be considered genre fiction.
... judge books on whether they are good or bad; it is publishers, and booksellers, who define genres, and what is in them.
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell was published in the UK as literary novel, not a genre novel. This meant it got reviewed in the main book sections, and not a paragraph in a ...
Kukkurovaca - I did actually "read"-read Jonathan Strange , but it took me forEVER, and I've heard from a friend who tried both that it is much, much more digestible as an audiobook, so I think you've made a good choice there.
... just finished the first book in a trilogy called His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik. It's very good. I think fans of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell would enjoy it too. Here's a brief premise:
Captain Will Laurence is a promising young officer in His Magjesty's Royal Navy of England ...
... topics - so the list of topics might start "BoPeep - wishlist". Include the maximum you want to pay for the book (e.g. "Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - No more than 80p." Believe it or not I found a copy for this price!) Only post to that topic if you actually find one of the titles ...
Well, I couldn't get into The Light Ages and enjoyed Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell . So don't necessarily let that dissuade you.
... The Killer Angels (which we had to read in 8th grade, and all ADORED, ultimately demanding a trip to Gettysburg), Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (which is delightful for its wonderfully discursive form as well as its characters; it is like a marvelous encyclopedia that you never want ...
I just finished reading Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell and I quite enjoyed the book. However, the first time I tried reading it I gave up. I found the first part very boring, but after that the book really got interesting.
I enjoyed the all the historical fact, although I didn't like the way ...
I already use "unread" for books I own that I haven't read.
How do audio CDs handle the footnotes in Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell ? Do they do the footnote as son as it appears? What if it's in the middle of a sentence? Does the reader make a little announcement: "Now begins footnote 3 ...
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell is amazing. It was actually the first book I consumed on audio CD—many audio CDs. It felt like it was never going to end. I wish it hadn't...
Ah, my copy of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is tagged 'reading' and has been since I got it at Christmas. My mother finished it (same copy) just recently. It's probably time i switched it abck to 'unread' since I'm going to have to start again at the beginning anyway.
I finished the Silmari ...
... some Mac and tech-related ones, etc. I really like the diverse, democratic world of podcasting.
I'm pretty sure that Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell is the book most often tagged "unread" on LT, so congratulations. :)
... ipod revolution has brought them into my life via audible.com. what's your source?
My favorite recent audio book was Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell . I'm a sucker for a reader with a British accent.
Now I'm listening to Alice in Wonderland.
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