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Title: A few magical moments . . .
Review: Not only could this book give readers a concussion if it fell on them while they drifted off to sleep, (heavy, huge hardback edition), but at times it could quite possibly be the cause of the sleepiness. Still, big and unwieldy as it is, the book is worth a look.Susanna Clarke's book, heralded by some critics, is, in my humble opinion, a strange combination of wonderful prose and monotonous blandness, interspersed with a dribblingling of truly inspired and magical moments. The search for those moments is what kept me determined to finish this lengthy undertaking. But in the end, and though the writer indeed deserves praise for weaving a story of this verbal magnitude together, there just weren't enough of those magical moments to allow me to feel satisfied.In the end, what comes to mind is that reading this book was a bit like reading one of those textbooks that Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell spent so much of their time with. Just add the dust.
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