where cc's boring life is revealed in detail

[cheeringcharm]

Friday night, I started to read Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell. I got about 7 pages in and couldn't keep my eyes open. It was 9:30. I crashed and when I awoke the next day and considered picking the book up I couldn't remember a thing I read. Was it because I was so tired? Or because the book was just that uninteresting? I have to say this; it

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[likebunnies]

I tried reading that book when it came out and made it to page 35. I put it on the shelf hoping to try again someday. I always try to keep in mind that the first time I read Harry Potter, it took me over a month to make it past the part with the Dursleys.

[lady_carrie]

I think I got about up page 50 before giving up on reading it.

[didi75]

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell got so much hype in the HP community when it first came out, I think a lot readers were dissappointed. I bought it for my friend's husband last year and I don't think he's finished it yet. I thought it was a pretty good gift at the time. Stephen King said (in my Entertainment Weekly mag) that he was thankful JS&MN was almost as good as the initial reviews, so I'm sure it gets better

[danielerin]

That's quite a meme - and you said your life was boring!

No idea about the book, off to order my own group from BMG, but none of the same that you ordered, and yay for Mom. Oh, and good luck to Jay, who doesn't need to lose any weight. Don't you just love men and their goddamn metabolisms?

[auliana]

JS&mN is really boring until about the last two hundred pages- then it was good. I don't know if it's really worth it. *shrugs*

I do think that it's partly JKR's fault- causing editors to go easy on anything written about British wizards ever again!