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Pros & Cons
Pros
Human nature is nicely showcased. It is everything the glowing reviews say it is. Absolute perfection, in my opinion.
The main one is how plot/tension is done. This springs from the characters. Each choice grows in seriousness till the *. The non-dialogue narrative is a fun documentary style.
Norrell comes from faerie to pluck the prime minister's young wife from death. Strange is an enigmatic antagonist who really steals the show.
Cons
The book is illegible. It rambles on and on, chapter after chapter, pointless footnote after pointless footnote.
This book is less about magic, and more about the preposterous attitudes of the upper class of britain in the time of the wars with napoleon. The drudgery that is the rest of the book is the only explanation as to why this book has such high reviews. ... Read More
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Quality
So i was happy with the product
I had seen the bbc series and enjoyed it so i wanted to continue the experience with the book
I found the whole set up with the two women and the two magicians to be a hugely frustrated misuse of dramatic irony
In fact the character who is mentioned most with the greatest focus is never given a name and only visibly appears for a brief... Read More
Price
If you are looking for a vacation that costs the price of a book this is it
Vinculus is a minor character but also has an arc
Packaging/appearance
Anyway good book but be advised that ordering any book on amazon as a gift may result in having to return it because their pack... Read More
Competitiveness
Norrell and jonathan stranges teacherpupil to competition relationship gets me every time
I was not merely fascinated by the competition but was entranced by the multitude of unique characters populating the fantasy w... Read More
This being said it must be understood that their personal competition requires the telling of a good number of subplots in orde... Read More
Its in the final 300ish pages that clarkes giftedness in building such a detailed novel begins to reveal itself
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magic, strange, long and novel. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
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- This product had a total of 10,812 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 5 2023.
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Not a love story which is awesome
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There were times when i was a little bored maybe because mr
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But those moments were few and only in the beginning
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This line sums things up about the two main characters 34and the name of one shall be fearfulness
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And the name of the other shall be arrogance
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Not the harry potter type with wands and so forth but a more restrained type of magic relying heavily on books of or about past magicians
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Also authors like to describe things and in many other books i am thinking 34here goes the author describing the scene34 whereas in this book there is tremendously more to describe yet i am not noticing the author
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That is not the fabulous accomplishment of this truly outstanding work of novelist artistry
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