So I have two or three chapters left of that fabulous novel and I'm wondering what else is similar?

I know Susanna Clarke has another book that's a collection of short stories relating to Jonathon Strange and M.N. characters but what are books by different authors that are sorta similar? Fantasy preferably.

I've read Picture of Dorian Gray and I find them very similar at points. Same with Harry Potter and some Tolkien stuff.

Try some Neil Gaiman.

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Ooh! I didn't know Stardust was a book before it was a movie. I really liked that film.

I don't know if anything could possibly be on the same scale as JS and MN. I don't know how Susanna Clarke wrote such an amazing book. It must have taken years!

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in fact, to own the truth, there is nothing quite like it, least nothing i have ever been shewn.

edit: i never read the ladies of grace adieu. is it any good?

apparently the dangerous liaisons guy is adapting js and mn for a film

I've started building a hypothetical cast list for the film. I really hope that it does end up being made! I'd love to see how the novel translates into a film.
Presumably a lot would have to be left out though unless they wanted to make it three hours AT LEAST.

oh they are going to have to butcher it. just the bits in venice, or the bits with wellington could make a whole film

hypothetical cast list (culled from others)

norrell ian holm
strange depp
richard black chiwetel ofijor or however you spell it
man with thistle down hair DUNNO

my friend has the book, i bought the ladies of grace adieu but im yet to read it.

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Said Hamlet to Ophelia,
I'll draw a sketch of thee,
What kind of pencil shall I use?
2B or not 2B?

It's STEPHEN Black, Kesh.

I do like the idea of Ian Holm, but not Depp.... it's a little too "ooh quirky character, let's use Johnny". Maybe David Tennant?

The man with the thistledown hair... well you can do a lot with makeup... someone thin and elfin enough... and then we need Vinculus and Norrel's servant whose name escapes me...

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so who is richard black? it's been a while since i read it. isn't he some athlete?

i couldn't bear to watch david tennant do insane, as when strange is drinking the mad juice. it would be all hammed up. tennant is way too hammy. i think depp is good, but burton is shit, so you see depp being crappy quite often, though i've not seen sweeney todd

childermass? childermann?

man with the thistle down hair needs to be evil and charming and enthusiastic and other worldly insane all at once

Gary Oldman should be in it somewhere. Ewan McGregor could be a really great Mr. Lascelles

I think James Marsters could be Vinculus. (Spike from Buffy)
he's really zany sometimes (Spike was always different through the episodes) and he does a kick ass English accent and the scenes of him as William make sense, he just works in 19th century England

I purchased this today, it better be good or i'll kill you all!

Does he?? Cause he definitely never displayed that kick ass English accent in Buffy... Speaking of English accents, I am so used to seeing Hugh Laurie in House that now when he does an English accent, it sounds fake which I find highly amusing.

I loved this book so much I never want to see a movie of it. Because I know it wouldn't be half as good as it was in my head unless it was about 15 hours long and had a budget of about a gadbillion dollars.

bingo

so has anybody read the ladies of grace adieu?

Insomnia,
I was actually referring to his accent on Buffy. You didn't think it sounded real? (I'm not from the UK but I watch a lot of British films and TV and I have best friends with British parents)