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Title: Enjoyable, but just too long and rambling
Review: I did enjoy the half of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that I read, but I just got too darn tired to continue. I am happy to read big, bad, heavy books that will conk me in the head every time I try to read in bed. I quite enjoy English works that take a long time to build up to little or nothing if the journey is good. I freely admit I loved the historical style, complete with footnotes, in Jonathan Strange. It seemed like everything that I would want in a book, history, magic, written for grownups! But it was just too much reading with nothing going on to take. I have to agree with other reviewers, it is a personal style thing. Perhaps at another time in my life I will come back to it, but for now I'm okay with not knowing how it all ends up.
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