Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.

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Re: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.

Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Mon Jan 13, 2014 10:43 pm

Audley Strange wrote:
orpheus wrote:Haven't read it myself, but I recall Neal Stephenson saying he liked it. (I hope I'm not misrepresenting him.) Also Mrs. Orph liked it a lot. I'm going to add it to my precariously tall stack of books to read.
Yeah its the sort of thing he might have written instead of The Baroque Cycle. If he was into English myths rather than the history of computing. You should read it, you'd get a kick out of it, I think.
So, any relation? :tea:
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Re: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.

Post by Audley Strange » Mon Jan 13, 2014 11:46 pm

Xamonas Chegwé wrote:
Audley Strange wrote:
orpheus wrote:Haven't read it myself, but I recall Neal Stephenson saying he liked it. (I hope I'm not misrepresenting him.) Also Mrs. Orph liked it a lot. I'm going to add it to my precariously tall stack of books to read.
Yeah its the sort of thing he might have written instead of The Baroque Cycle. If he was into English myths rather than the history of computing. You should read it, you'd get a kick out of it, I think.
So, any relation? :tea:
No. I think I'm a distant relation of Hugo.
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Re: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.

Post by Ayaan » Tue Jan 14, 2014 9:06 am

Bella Fortuna wrote:
orpheus wrote:precariously tall stack of books to read.
I have one of those!!!
So do I, plus 110 books on my Nook plus about 20 e-books from amazon plus an uncounted number in storage all waiting to be read. I'm going to have to figure out a way to read after I'm dead. :hehe:
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