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Old 02-16-2012, 08:01 AM   #26
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke.

Long-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2004 and winner of the Hugo in 2005. I just couldn't finish it - so boring.
^+1 to that! I tried listening to it on audiobook, and gave up after a couple of hours. Wifey is reading it, though, and seems to be getting on with it.

My choice would be Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks, which has just been made into a TV drama in the UK. Such outpourings of praise for this WWI tale, for me it was just "meh".
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