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What book did you push through despite wanting to put it down/rage quit/bail on? (slrpnk.net)

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[–] frankPodmore@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree with you about Strange and Norrell. The pacing was poor and it was over-long.

But!

Susanna Clarke's next book, Piranesi, is actually really good. Like, really, incredibly good. I recommend it to everyone and so far no one has said anything but positive things about it. I rarely re-read books but this is one that I've come back to.

As it happens, I read Piranesi first, so I found JS&MN a bit disappointing, but I'm glad I read them that way around otherwise I might have skipped Piranesi, and that would have been a mistake!

[–] simply_surprise@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I really liked Piranesi!