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[erastes]

bah! BAH I say, BAH!!!

Can't watch that Men Snoggage video at work on the sooper dooper broadband because it needs Flash 205.a.a.a.1.x.b version or something which we have not got. I'll try again downloading it on my dial up tonight.

Frustrating. Very.

http://gehayi.livejournal.com/250330.html

Interesting debate here about the merits (or NOT) of Strange and Norrell. I don't think I'll be bothering with that one, in the foreseeable future. gehayi LOVES detailed and rich and if she finds it dull and unsatisfying and boring, I'll be asleep after five pages.

That being said, I'm reading "He Knew He Was Right" by Trollope which is about 800 pages long and I've read 250 and so far:

1. Wife receives dashing older man (friend of her family) with bad reputation for being a little too friendly with married women.

2. Husband dissaproves.

3. Disagreement and they seperate.

Er...

And that's it, just about. BUT. It is engaging and I will finish it, slow-paced or not. I am interested in what happens (if anything) but it does make me laugh, when I think of what happened in Standish and it was "only" 224 pages - I obviously just wasn't trying hard enough, was I? *Laughs*

Comments

[leatherdykeuk.livejournal.com]

I loved Strange and Norrell.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

It's surprised me, really, because all I've seen is unlimited squee about it, but gehayi's post certainly bought the detractors out of the woodwork. I read the first chapter on line, and I found it extremely tedious. Actually that's not that true, I couldnt even finish the chapter!!!

I'll try it out at some point, probably... possibly...

[raphinou.livejournal.com]

just wanted to say hello and to mentioned that i've (be)friended you back.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Hello and welcome!

(love your gay playing card btw...)

[cbpotts.livejournal.com]

See, I loathed Strange & Norrell. I bought it new, which I never do, and found myself forcing myself to pick it back up. There were a few glimmering threads in there, but so much crap and willful misspellings that I gave up.

On a brand new book.

This never, ever, ever happens.

The book is too large for its own good. Every other word could be chopped and you wouldn't lose much.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I read two excerpts on line - one a section with Dawnlight who Norell orders to GET HIM A GLASS OF WATER (all very mystical... not...

And the first chapter which I thought AMAZINGLY dull. Just incredibly dull. Reptitive and illogical. I'll not be trying that until I'm very bored. Or bedridden.

OT

[rmanley.livejournal.com]

I just sent you an email. *poke* I'll be off running errands, so if you email me back, it'll be a little while before I respond.

[lovefromgirl.livejournal.com]

You forgot 4. Repeat ad nauseam.

(Discovered via gehayi and lists of historical fiction rules. Friended because you seem awesome. ^_~)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

*Laughs*

Yes, I'm beginning to notice a pattern. I'm now about 500 pages in and he's still asking her to refuse to see Osbourne and she's still refusing to give any such promise.

It's only the subplots of Dorothy and Nora that's keeping me interested.

When does the car chase start? I can't believe they made a mini-series of this - it must have been a lot shorter than the book...

And welcome! Awesome. No. Serial procrastinator. Yes.

[lovefromgirl.livejournal.com]

Nope. Miniseries was just as agonizing. I watched it for Bill Nighy (now THAT is yum).

Hey, serial procrastination is just fine. It's a way of life chez moi...