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Mar. 28th, 2005 03:46 pmFinished Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell last night. Can't quite decide about it. Big chunk in the middle dragged terribly, but she pulls it off in the end. Keeps the reader at arm's length throughout, which is not to my taste, as a rule.
But hovering just under the skin--under the pastiche of the 19th-century novel and the satire upon the historical novel in general, not to mention an adroit critique of the fantasy novel genre--is a massive, massive allegory about England.
Curious book (in both senses).
On to Jonathan Foer's new one, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Started it over coffee this morning, and am (so far) not disappointed. But am a little dismayed at the advance poster for the movie of Everything Is Illuminated, posted courtesy of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cleolinda. Is Liev Schreiber going to blow it? Is this going to be a ribald thigh-slapping slapstick comedy? Hollywood lost the skill to make that kind of movie in 1949. And anyway, WTF?
But hovering just under the skin--under the pastiche of the 19th-century novel and the satire upon the historical novel in general, not to mention an adroit critique of the fantasy novel genre--is a massive, massive allegory about England.
Curious book (in both senses).
On to Jonathan Foer's new one, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Started it over coffee this morning, and am (so far) not disappointed. But am a little dismayed at the advance poster for the movie of Everything Is Illuminated, posted courtesy of
cleolinda. Is Liev Schreiber going to blow it? Is this going to be a ribald thigh-slapping slapstick comedy? Hollywood lost the skill to make that kind of movie in 1949. And anyway, WTF?
