And illustrations! Portia Rosenberg did a great job, illustrations look great and match the tone of the novel. And since action is not the main point of the novel, you can safely reach for the book after that, to savour all the details – the language, the irony, the literary references. I’d recommend, probably for the first time, to watch TV show before reading the book – it takes all the action and excitement and condenses it in a relatively short (seven episodes) form. It’s a cross of… Dickens, Austen, and a bit of Connie Willis if her all books were the length of the “Doomsday Book”. Slow-paced behemoths like that – I read for atmosphere and quotes. Not even for characters, although some characters in “Jonathan…” are very good. I don’t read books like this one for action. „I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, „but a gentleman never could.” „ Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange.
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