Read the Book…
Posted by Matthew Stevenson on 24 November 2009 | 2 responses
…before you see the movie Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.
This is a fantastic (and fantastical) novel by Susanna Clarke that, handled rightly, will make a wonderful film(s). The novel is something like Jane Austen writing the Harry Potter series – lots of magic and Britishness. The copious footnotes (yes, this novel is heavily footnoted) are a gem in and of themselves. Best read with tea and Elgar.
The movie is still far in the distance (production hasn’t begun.) However, this is a book is a heafty 800 pages so I wanted to give everyone a heads up.
2 Responses to “Read the Book…”
In a slightly different direction, but on the subject of Jane Austen, I have heard a fair amount of praise for Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which preserves the vast majority of the original text and adds to it a dash of zombie mayhem (hence the title).
I too have heard many good reviews of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. The opening line alone makes me want to read it: “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.”