Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Novel -Tackle the book after the show?
After watching the show, I decided to tackle that 1,006 book and after reaching the 934 page mark I have to ask- what do you think of the author Susanna Clark's prose?
For starters, this novel did not need to be over a 1,000 pages. If she had eliminated the unnecessary and lengthy footnotes that were at the bottom of almost every page and were at best digressions that led to nowhere and had no real impact on ushering the story forward or even showed up again as relevant at a later interval than this book could have been condensed to 800 pages. If you don't find that off putting, the author will on occasion break the 'spell' of the story by addressing the audience as the writer not in the prologue but during the story on regular intervals to regard any perceived confusion she believes the audience will have in a rather condescending tone. At this point, you will have guessed it she is a bit Norrell here. Also, she even utilizes old-fashioned or perhaps even Old English words such as chuses, shews, and other words. For myself, I find Clarke's prose tedious, long-winded, and patronizing.