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Penny Arcade - Comic - English Magic
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Penny Arcade - Comic - English Magic
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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recommended this book to you fifteen years ago
recommended this book to you fifteen years ago
I expected I flashback...
On the other hand, I like to think Tycho really did say "literarily."
Also, is he Tycho Two-Times?
I really enjoyed it, but it is really long, and while I found it humorous, I think my wife found it a bit dry. It does do the subdued dry English humor a lot. However, both my wife and I really enjoyed the miniseries adaptation. Even as a miniseries, it's a bit condensed, but it is faster paced and still very faithful to the novel. I highly recommend it.
https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/jonathan-strange-and-mr-norrell
Just to be clear, panel 1 says
literally
literally
literarily
Literally?
no, litararily.
Littorally.
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That is the context I choose and cannot be persuaded otherwise.
As I've said here in the past, it's a really good book that is too long by exactly the length of the middle section.
I see what you did there
This is the only book I have forgotten I was reading while over halfway through the book. Just put it in my backpack one day and never thought about it again until I was cleaning out that backpack nine months later.
I gave it to good will, unfinished
I actually have the same problem with that author. Multiple friends whose opinion I respect, and multiple authors whose opinion I respect, have gushed about China Mieville...but I've tried to read two Mieville novels, and gave up on both because I just plain did not care what was going to happen to the characters...which, to me, is a far greater sin than actually being a shit story by a shit author. At least when it's a bad story, you can MST3K it to yourself for your amusement, but when you're just plain bored? Yeesh.
I read the first bit over a day or two, then hit a brick wall in the middle and put it down for like a year. Then I picked it up again, slogged through the middle, and tore through the end.
The TV version of it was actually pretty good, too.
I couldn't even tell you about the characters or the story due to the prose style. I literally (literarily) stopped halfway through the first chapter and said aloud, "FUCK. YOU."
Which is an incredible rarity (raritarily) for me. I've read all the (non-Brian Sherbert) Dune novels. Some of them I had to make several charges at before managing to maintain my grip long enough to climb over. And I never once got this angry at them. I felt it on a visceral level that surprised me.