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Title: Brilliant Footnotes, etc.
Review: Whoever suggested skimming the footnotes is a bowdlerizer. Most of the footnotes are marvelous stories that stand on their own. This is not Tolkien or Rowling. This sometimes very funny and sometimes very sad book, the world Susanna Clarke creates, is utterly original, a gorgeous and thrilling mix of magic and history. Very highly recommended.
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