One Minute Norrell

[HIMSk8rCKY]

haha my last name is literally norrell

[CelestialElf]

Loved the book,

brief synopsis heere but any pr is worthy in this case as the book is sooo great,

check out my page for some spin off videos i have made of the Raven King :)

[SomeRandomDrummer]

incredible book! but this seemed more like a synopsis than a review...

[Zanllin]

I'm reading it right now and am on chapter 44. What a great book this is. I never read anything quite like it. I too recommend it to everyone. ;)

[Lekeeon]

This book is fantastic! I'm finishing and i feel it could go on and on.

Miss Clarke did a great job.

[fortinian]

This is a terrible review, the guy clearly does not know what he is on about. 'Set in Great Britain around the time of Napoleon?' Why not 'Set in Great Britain around the time of Thomas Jefferson'? Makes just as much sense. Also, 'it is heavily researched' - you're getting confused between research and imagined. It is heavily imagined with a very full and complete created background history but it is in no way researched. As for the book itself.... tedious.

[CrashSolo]

Thanks for the comment - you should do a video book review of something that you've enjoyed reading, I'd love to see it.

[LittleRock1970]

@CrashSolo I think you did the book justice for a one minute review . Being set around and involving the Napoleonic war I don't quite see why a reference to Thomas Jefferson would be fitting as mentioned by 'fortinian' .... !

Goof revirew .. I've read the book too many times :)

Peace

[RoulinBrooks]

@fortinian Not really a fair comment. Much of the novel deals specifically with the Napoleonic War and there isn't a single reference in more than 1000 pages to the United States. So mentioning Napoleon and not Jefferson makes perfect sense. Not everything revolves around the United States.

[gingerofthesketch]

i am in the third part of the book now and it definitely gets better as it goes on. the history in it is fascinating! this is definitely one of my favorite books!

[emildebaudricourt]

I read it for a high school book project. I forget which grade it was, either 10th or 11th. It was a very interesting story and got me interested in the old magic of Britain and the Fae and so on. I loved the Man with the Thistled Down hair. He was so evil yet, not. I don't know how to describe him. Very well written and the footnotes were helpful in understanding the story.

[Nades129]

I really got hooked, everytime a magic book inside the book appears I googled it... lol i got punked

[yannoche]

Great book !

[FreakingWillow]

this book is worth its 800 pages.!

YOU ROCK Susanna Clarke!! \m/'_'\m/

[PoizOneParadize]

In fact, if you remove the footnotes from the pages of the book, the novel could have 50% pages less. I'm currently reading this book and i'm round page 400... just a tip for who is starting now: is not boring. Well, maybe you could think to stop reading after 100 pages but... the fact is, the more you go on reading, the more you can find it awesome. In the very start yes, it's quite boring but then... oh my... i put it in the 10 best books of my life, at 4th position.

Peace all.

[bifficus]

this is one of my all-time favorite stories. i've read it several times and listened to the audiobook as well. wonderful!

[Nades129]

John Uskglass!!!! Raven King...

the book is sooo good, it even convince me that english magic exist

[rabiakhawaja]

You r so right. I mean can you believe it In the middle of the book I actually went to the google to see if their was actually magic done in England

[0casteloencantado0]

Love it!

SPOILER!!!

SPOILER!!!

SPOILER!!!

But not to be disapointing I'll have to consider the ending starts when Jonathan Strange drinks the "crazyness" and not just when he and Norrell meet at last.

[josefina213]

I was read this book.Very great <3 I love it :)

[xangieILYOO]

It is a great book. I just started it, so I'm not that far into it, but it's really good so far. =3

[rileymccarthy]

I'm in the middle of reading this now. It's very good.

[showpod]

wonderful iam not done yet with the book it does get you living the fantasy..

[jgirvine]

Great review, I loved the footnotes just as much as the actual story.

[CrashSolo]

Thanks! I keep waiting for another novel from Susanna Clarke (Fall, 2008, according to rumor...), but i guess one can't expect an author to churn out books like Jonathan Strange too very often. I haven't read her "Ladies of Grace..." short story collection yet, so i might pick that up while i wait!

[jgirvine]

I liked that one, but it wasn't as good as Jonathan Strange. I'd definitely reccomend it though!