• caseyweederman
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    2 months ago

    Jonathan Strange and Mister Norrell by Susanna Clarke is pretty fantastic/terrible about that. The footnotes are often entire short stories and span many pages.

    • Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com
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      2 months ago

      I think the footnotes enhanced my love of that book.

      And I alway think kindly of Pterry’s nested footnotes.