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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
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Not as good as the second one. Will repeatedly getting taught the importance of discipline becomes really preachy and annoying after a while. The ending is ok though. Some other interesting things about this series might be its complete absence of female characters except for helpless victims, often overly simplistic take on politics and morality, as well as the prevalence of more or less Sueish heroes - it seems that the genre of sf and YA literature have changed a lot over the past few decades
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Feb 12, 2011
Tyrone
rated it
really liked it
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apocalyptic-dystopian

Oct 10, 2011
Dayna
marked it as to-read