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Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series

post #1 of 4
8/4/08 at 10:25pm
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Loved the Eyre Affair, currently reading Lost in a Good Book. It's been a long time, probably since The Dark Tower, that I've found a series with characters so real I can't wait to read the next book. Like a mix of Bridget Jones, Harry Potter and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. And other stuff that's not funny and British.
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post #2 of 4
8/4/08 at 11:26pm
I'm a fan of his Thursday Next books, but his Nursery Crime series tickles my literary nerd bone something fierce. I read The Fourth Bear on a whim on a plane and by the time it landed I was a fan for life.
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post #3 of 4
8/11/08 at 1:48pm
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Fin

Just finished Lost in a Good Book. Slight spoilers ahead. I enjoyed it, but not as much as the first one. The character Thursday Next is still like a living, breathing person to me, but her adventure this time felt like treading water. Instead of Jack Shit, there's Shit-House. Instead of Acheron Hades, there's Aornis Hades. Instead of Jane Eyre, it's Great Expectations.

I especially did not like how Aornis, at the expense of character development, was left as a last second reveal. Compared to Acheron's slimy persona she's a Mary Sue, especially since Fforde takes the time to have Thursday muse "Acheron was nothing compared to Aornis." Kind of like in the Star Wars comic Dark Empire when someone, maybe Mon Mothma, talks about the World Devastators as being "even more destructive than the Death Star!" All right, we get it.

Still, Jurisfiction was a nice addition.
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post #4 of 4
8/14/08 at 3:58pm
I love this series almost as much as Hitchhiker's. But Lost in a Good Book is surprisingly weak. Something Rotten is probably the most gloriously outlandish.
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