Know what's intimidating? Fine print -- 782 pages of it -- bound in a black hardcover with the white silhouette of a raven streaked across it.
If the mere sight of Susanna Clarke's book "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell" makes you feel like David taking on Goliath, try reading it a few years from now.
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