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BookshelfMonstrosity: Magical rivalries are at the heart of these unconventional Fantasy novels, which play out over decades and against elaborate, atmospheric 19th-century backdrops. Their initially relaxed pacing gains momentum as the various narrative threads dramatically converge.… (mere)
TheSpecialistsCat: Both Clarke and Mirrlees lived briefly in Spain, then returned home to write about fairies and also, ostensibly, what it means to be English.
fyrefly98: Both have the same "Jane-Austen-meets-Harry-Potter" vibe to them; "Jonathan Strange" is denser and more grown-up, while "Sorcery & Cecelia" is funnier and more of a romp.
ErlendSkjelten: I don't remember making this recommendation, much less why I did; they are very different books. I think I felt that they both conjured up the same mystic mood, and they are both concerned with a very British magic.
Wow. This is quite the epic. This book takes you through years of the lives of the title characters as they try to bring magic back to England after hundreds of years of absence. Such a rich universe painted by Clarke with backstories, footnotes, lore, and more all fleshed out. Not once in the roughly 1000 pages did I think "when will this end" ... I was genuinely invested the whole book through. That said, there were chapters which were simply there to round out the environment for the reader. That's not a bad thing, but it didn't feel like it drove the story forward necessarily.
At any rate, this is a fantastic read for fans of magic, history, or historical magic. ( )
Couldn't stick with it. I enjoy an occasional fantasy, but I couldn't keep up with all the goings on in this one. Didn't care about any of the characters either. ( )
Hyper-authentic attention to detail makes it read like a true 19th century novel, down to the grammar, punctuation, spelling, narration, footnotes, etc. A glimpse into what modern speculative fiction would have been if introduced centuries earlier. Difficult to say if the huge length and slow pace are part of the intended authenticity or not. ( )
(2004) Heard a lot of buzz about this ?Harry Potter for adults?. Well, boring. Way to long (782 pages), I only made it to about 270 and felt like I had suffered enough. Interesting stories such as raising a woman from the dead and helping England fight Napoleanic France at turn of 19th century, but plod plod plod.
Her deftly assumed faux-19th century point of view will beguile cynical adult readers into losing themselves in this entertaining and sophisticated fantasy.
Susanna Clarke, who resides in Cambridge, England, has spent the past decade writing the 700-plus pages of this remarkable book. She's a great admirer of Charles Dickens and has produced a work every bit as enjoyable as The Pickwick Papers, with more than a touch of the early Anne Rice thrown in for good measure.
A chimera of a novel that combines the dark mythology of fantasy with the delicious social comedy of Jane Austen into a masterpiece of the genre that rivals Tolkien.
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He hardly ever spoke of magic, and when he did it was like a history lesson and no one could bear to listen to him.
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In memory of my brother, Paul Frederick Gunn Clarke, 1961-2000
Første ord
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Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians.
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At sixteen she spoke -- not only French, Italian & German -- which are part of any lady's commonplace accomplishments -- but all the languages of the civilized (and uncivilized) world. She spoke the language of the Scottish Highlands (which is like singing). She spoke Basque, which is a language which rarely makes any impression upon the brains of any other race, so that a man may hear it as often and as long as he likes, but never afterwards be able to recall a single syllable of it. She even learnt the language of a strange country which, Signor Tosetti had been told, some people believed still existed, although no one in the world could say where it was. (The name of the country was Wales.)
It is also true that that his hair had a reddish tinge and, as everybody knows, no one with red hair can ever truly be said to be handsome.
"Soldiers, I am sorry to say, steal everything." He thought for a moment and then added, "Or at least ours do."
"Can a magician kill a man by magic?" Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. "I suppose a magician might," he admitted "but a gentleman never could."
It may be laid down as a general rule that if a man begins to sing, no one will take any notice of his song except his fellow human beings. This is true even if his song is surpassingly beautiful. Other men may be in raptures at his skill, but the rest of creation is, by and large, unmoved. Perhaps a cat or a dog may look at him; his horse, if it is an exceptionally intelligent beast, may pause in cropping the grass, but that is the extent of it. But when the fairy sang, the whole world listened to him. Stephen felt clouds pause in their passing; he felt sleeping hills shift and murmur; he felt cold mists dance. He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands. In the fairy's song the earth recognized the names by which it called itself.
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Then he turned upon his heel and disappeared into the Darkness.
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At any rate, this is a fantastic read for fans of magic, history, or historical magic. (