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A Reader posted a review at 2007-12-07 04:44:20.
(Language: English)
 
This title caught my eye in a bookshop a few years ago, because it related to Jane Eyre, and of course it being one of my favourite novels I had to pick it up and see what this was all about. I read The Eyre Affair and soon following were two birthdays I was to attend. I bought two copies for each of the birthday girls, and they, like myself, couldn't put it down. Luckily Jasper Fforde has made his idea into a series. I say idea, because although there is a plot in each, his books has an encompassing ideal. His books are quite literally set in the literary world!Thursday Next is the heroine, and she is a literary detective. She is the person who makes sure nothing untoward happens to our main characters within the worlds' canonical texts. There would be no more Jane Eyre if something happened to Mr Rochester, or the story may change completely if an alien was seen traversing the grounds of Pemberley! Thursday, part of Spec. Ops. division is the law and order of our Classics. Jasper Fforde has a lot of fun with his writing, much to the delight of his readers. There are many literary nuances that as you read them you cannot help but laugh out loud. I think that even if you're not a big reader of the classics you'll enjoy these books. Really they're books any reader can enjoy. My local bookshop has these books classed in the Science Fiction area. I disagree with this. I think they should be classed in literature as they are definite examples of postmodernism. Thursday Next manages to weild her authoratative prowess through the world of text and in so doing shows the fascinating machinations of the book world. Great metafictinal read! 
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-01-30 01:25:29.
(Language: English)
If the Thursday Next series were an apple pie (stay with me here) I would find the crust delicious, the spices aromatic and surprising. Even the plate would be pretty. But the apples would be for shit. Basically, what I'm trying to say is that I quite like the world with its zany literary bent and I enjoy almost all of the secondary characters...but Thursday herself makes me want to stab myself in the face. It seems to me that it's clearly one of those situations where an author loves a character so much that he starts warping the world around her so that everyone else loves her too. Even the villains respect and admire her. And yeah, I get that she's the heroine, but I'm really getting tired of everyone orgasming all over her every time she walks in the room. Especially since there's not much to her characterization beyond "awesome." And I really wish he'd quit beating the shit out of Bowden, who I love like woah.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-06-01 10:09:06.
(Language: English)
"The Eyre Affair is a silly book for smart people" - The Times. Jasper Fforde has constructed an amazing "otherworld", so like our own but with subtle differences. Time there is flexible, with time travel possible. History is quite malleable for those with the incliniation and knowledge. And most notably, the fictionary world of literature is as alive as the world we know as real.The main character Thursday Next is likeable as a feisty detective, with a soft spot for dodos. Her arch nemesis Acheron Hades is as pure evil as any Emperor from Star Wars.A warning for those into lighter fiction: there are quite a few plot threads and "in jokes" that will only make sense to those with a working knowledge of english literature and english history. If this is you - highly recommended reading, modern history with humour.
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Alexandra posted a review at 2007-11-04 07:28:44.
(Language: English)
From out of the literary wilderness of today's flaccid, made-for-Hollywood fiction comes Jasper Fforde with a cast of characters from the pages of history (both past and future). How refreshing it is to encounter an author who presupposes the intelligence of the reader and succeeds in making the impossible rather plausible. Falling into the pages of this book is like encountering beloved old friends in new and unexpected places as Mr Quaverley, Rochester, Wordsworth, Jane Eyre and a host of others find themselves threaded into the plot. Mad Baconians, casual vampires, interactive productions of Richard III...it all makes complete sense in the world of the heroine, Thursday Next. One can only imagine how delightful it must be to possess a mind as elegantly agile as Jasper Fforde's.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-07-23 10:14:42.
(Language: English)
This book was a lot of fun. If you're a reader, a lover of literature, you'll have fun with all the puns and wacky names and literary references. (Example: One character's name was Oswald Mandias--get it?) The story takes place in a sort of alternate universe in which Britain is still fighting in the Crimea, people are so fiercely passionate about literature that a special-ops unit called LiteraTecs is assigned to protect great works, and rival groups with the passion of Sharks vs. Jets clash over whether Shakespeare, Bacon, or Marlowe wrote Shakespeare's plays, among others. Then there's our unflabble hero, Ms. Thursday Next, defending Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewith and Bronte's Jane Eyre from a dastardly villain, Acheron Hades (who has a brother named Styx Hades--get it?). Fun escapist fare. I've just started reading the second Thursday Next novel.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-01-24 09:06:12.
(Language: English)
Like the star rating I picked, it was OK. It is not a genre I read often and I read it for a book club, some of whom enjoyed it very much, but the lighthearted humor in the book I found sophmorish and stupid. I also had problems with technical gaps - things happening in this fantasy futuristic world that didn't fit with the parameters the author already outlined. A good read? I didn't think so, it was boring if anything. The romantic or family subplots were a complete failure by the author. It was the literary equivalent of Animal House is for movie quality.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-08-31 03:53:53.
(Language: English)
(43/50)WHAT a great book!! I loved the writing and the story!!This is the story of Thursday Next (yes, that is her name!!) and she lives in London in 1985....its just that its NOT the 1985 WE remember. A few things are different. :) Thursday works for a spec.ops group that deals with books and works of literature: LiteraTecs, and they have their hands full trying to find the 3d evilest man in England by the name of Acheron Hades who is stealing people directly OUT of great works of literature and killing them (I TOLD you this wasn't the 1985 that WE all remember and love) and he has set his sights on Jane Eyre as his next conquest and its up to Thursday and her work associates to foil the plan and save on of the greatest works of literature out there.What a fun romp!! I can see how knowing "Jane Eyre" is when reading this book. And its hard to remember sometimes that this is an alternate time that what I remember 1985 to be. But this is a great read and lots of fun to try and figure out. And the people's names in this book, will keep you laughing until the end. [Read 5/5-8/08]
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-04-06 10:10:02.
(Language: English)
Just finished the series as it stands (1-5, I expect more...) and it's my new mini obsession. I think I liked the 1st and 3rd one best, but they're all good page turners, light hearted, crammed with funny, intelligent literary humor, and very clever overall. If you don't know Jane Eyre at least look up the plot online before reading the first one. It helps to be familiar with titles and characters of some of the major classics, but it's definately not necessary. Lots of books I've only heard of. Humor is of rediculous variety, which is my favorite kind.
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Kelsey posted a review at 2009-01-02 02:25:33.
(Language: English)
A hilarious, crazy tale of a world quite like ours, but with a few differences--- 1)The Crimean War has been raging for 150 years, 2) Several key figures in history seem to have disappeared or died early, and... 3) The entertainment world is focused completely on classic literature. This is where our tale picks up, as Thursday Next (a nice reference to Paris and Juliet's wedding day,) must try to solve the mystery of the missing original manuscript of Jane Eyre. For anyone who likes classic literature, this is a complete and utter joy to read. It's chock-full of silly references and Fforde's wit is hilarious. A cute, humorous romp through the classics.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-08-27 08:34:05.
(Language: English)
I got into this book after many, many recommendations from friends. In a bizarre sort of alternate universe where literature is given the prominence of sports stars and books are still national treasures, Thursday Next is a LiteraTec --a detective specializing in literary crimes. When her old professor Acheron Hades steals an early Dickens manuscript, Next is thrown into an adventure trying to track him down. Hades jumps from Dickens to Bronte, and suddenly the beloved Jane Eyre is in jeopardy. I liked this book, but not as much as I really expected to. The basic premise -- of a lit-lovin' world and a machine that allows passage into works of literature -- is great. The book is wild and silly and highly entertaining. However, the characters are one-dimensional, and the main concern of the book -- the jeopardized Jane Eyre -- is somewhat lost on me, as I frankly don't care for Bronte's work. Had it been a book I preferred and am more familiar with, my enjoyment no doubt would have been greater. Still, the basic premise and writing style were good enough to keep my attention. I liked this book, and I'll definitely give the next volume in the series a try.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-07-19 06:45:44.
(Language: English)
I've heard a lot of hype about this book. This has been on my shelf for a long time already but I didn't read it since I haven't read Jane Eyre yet and was hoping to find a copy (a cheap one) before I read this book. However, I got impatient and finally picked it up the other day. I found it to be compulsively readable. It was a good mystery, an action packed thriller and a really imaginative view of an alternate 1985 England (or world), where time travel, werewolves, vampires are normal (well, maybe not normal, but existent and regulated by the government), one can go in and out of literary works and literature and art is taken very, very seriously. Seriously, as in, militant Baconians and anti-surrealist riots. The story is about Thursday Next, a war veteran, independent, strong, and totally kick-ass female character. She is actually in the Literary Detection Unit of the Spec Ops (sorta like CIA or FBI) but somehow got involved in the hunt for a very dangerous and evil criminal who has some seemingly supernatural powers. The world that Jasper created is very unusual and imaginative and of course, highly improbable. You would really need a huge suspension of disbelief. Thursday, I find to be a very likable character. Brave and strong, and loyal, and according to her partner Bowden Cable, everything a woman should be. The main villain was very quirky and comical but also intensely evil, wanting nothing more than to BE the evillest possible. Not even caring that much about money, but just in being bad. The one complaint I have is that there are some characters who exist simply for convenience or a way to save Thursday. I found it to be very contrived. Like Thursday's father who can stop time and visits her just in time to stop a rain of bullets. Or the spec Ops officer who picked her up, who happened to be fighting werewolves and vampires who gave her a silver bullet, which she used to kill Hades. Then again, this is supposed to be a series, so maybe those characters have a larger and more organic role in future Thursday Next novels. The writing is actually very silly and funny and quirky. Overall, I found the book to be enjoyable and fun. Lighthearted despite all the murder and mayhem. I just wouldn't count it as one of my all time faves since well, I'm not partial to comedy books. I like the super serious ones. But i would definitely recommend this to someone who likes a quick, interesting and fun read.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-01-07 07:57:46.
(Language: French)
L’affaire Jane Eyre, première aventure d'une détective littéraire qui se propulse à l'intérieur des romans pour résoudre les différents problèmes qu'ils peuvent rencontrer.... On se retrouve de l'autre coté du livre, on passe de l'autre coté du miroir, où tout un monde parallèle , basé sur les mots, les personnages, les synopsis, les livres perdus, ou non publiés , ceux à succès , les ratés, les erreurs, se retrouve et vit dans une société parallèle inventive et drôle pleine d'aventures et de clins d'œil littéraires . Dans un va et vient entre vie hors des livres et vie dans les livres, Thursday Next , l’héroine de Fforde, nous entraine dans un monde jubilatoire et inventif extrêmement séducteur et dans une critique forcenée de nos sociétés. Un livre à tiroirs, un Alice au pays des livres. A lire absolument les 5 tomes. Il y en a 8 de prévus. Existe traducido al Español. L’affair Jane Eyre, primera aventura de una detective literaria que se propulsa dentro de las novelas para resolver los diferentes problemas que puedan tener .... Pasamos del otro lado de los libros, al otro lado del espejo, donde todo un mundo paralelo, basado en las palabras, los personajes, los errores,el sinopsis, los libros perdidos, los no publicados, los éxitosos , los fallados, se encuentra y vive en una sociedad paralela inventiva y divertida repleta de aventuras y de guiños literarios . En un constante ir y venir entre vida fuera y dentro de los libros Thursday, la heroína de Fforde, nos embarca en un mundo sumamente seductor y jubilatorio para todo lector y nos propina una crítica furiosa de nuestras sociedades. Un Alicia en el país de los libros. Para leer sin demora los 5 tomos. Hay 8 de previstos..
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Wendy posted a review at 2009-08-04 05:53:17.
(Language: English)
I've been hearing about this book for a while now and I was pretty sure I would like it from what I heard about it. And I did. Jasper Fforde has a wicked sense of humour and a vivid imagination which he puts to good use in The Eyre Affair. Thursday Next is an special operative (SO) in Britain's literatech division(SO27). But it's a Britain that is quite a bit different from what we know. Wales is an independent country and the Crimean War is still being fought. In fact, Thursday was a soldier in the Crimean War. Her brother was killed and the man she loved lost a leg. He also said that her brother had pointed the troops up the wrong valley where they ran into strong Russian forces and were decimated. So Thursday and Lynton parted company and Thursday has worked in London for ten years. When the original manuscript for Martin Chuzzlewhite is stolen Thursday is on the case. This is a very strange theft because no one appears on the security tapes but the manuscript nevertheless disappears. SO5 believes that the theft is the work of a master criminal, Acheron Hades, who was a professor of Thursday's. She is co-opted by SO5 because she can identify him but when she does so Hades kills several of the operatives and leaves Thursday for dead. When Thursday recovers she is out for revenge and this leads her back to her hometown and Lynton. Many unforgettable characters help Thursday including her uncle Mycroft and aunt Polly. Mycroft is a genius who has invented a way to get into books. Hades wants this device and he kidnaps Mycroft and locks Polly in the Wordsworth poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud". Hades threatens to permanently change Martin Chuzzlewhite unless his demands are met. He does kill a minor character but Mycroft prevents further changes by burning the manuscript. This causes Hades to obtain the original manuscript for Jane Eyre, giving this work its name. There are literary references throughout the book which makes it a delight for any serious reader. And the alternate history should intrigue fans of historical novels and science fiction alike. I'll be reading more of Jasper Fforde's works.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-12-25 06:01:15.
(Language: English)
The first instalment in the Thursday Next series of books is a new and fun play on the aspects of time travel, as well as a play on the paralell universe theme. Set in "contemporary" UK , we find that this England is experiencing the Crimean War which still rages after after 150 years; Wales is a separatist "hostile" republic (!)the French Revolution is hanging in the balance, and literary works hold traction as the most precious of commodities. Time and history itself appears to be under siege as well as the forces of English and French "revisionists" attempt to retrospectively and prospectively rewrite history. Thursday enters the fray as an up and coming "tour de force" in the special ops section of the highly secret "Literatec" unit and finds herself chasing after the arch nemisis Archeron Hades who wreaks havoc by entering the plots of great literary works and interfering with the characters. The plot is littered with a plethora of characters with achingly corny names (eg Mr Jack Schitt and Braxton Hicks).However, this is a great read with an innovative approach, style, plot and subject. Highly recommended.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-07-22 02:24:24.
(Language: English)
This book is based in an alternate universe where literature means more that it does in ours... to them literature is like a religion, with different factions for Baconians, Shakepeareans, Austenites, etc. As a result of high literacy rates and developed comprehension skills, minds are advanced and real interaction between a person and a book is possible (meaning some people can move in and out of books... or even out of times in history.) A terrorist captures Jane Eyre and thereby starts erasing the manuscript. Thursday Next (the main character) has to get Jane back (with the help of my second favorite literary character ever, Mr.Rochester) and restore the sanctity of the masterpiece.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-12-22 11:07:29.
(Language: English)
In his first book in the Thursday Next series, Jasper Fforde creates a fantastically inventive world where ... (I was going to write a few examples here, but half of the pleasure of reading the Thursday Next series is in discovering the fascinating quirks of this alternate universe.) Suffice to say that in this world, literature is far more important than in our own. Therefore, voracious readers will get the most out of Eyre Affair, which follows the adventures of literary detective Thursday Next as she attempts to thwart a villain who is kidnapping book characters right off the page. If you've ever wanted to travel into a story and meet your favorite characters, The Eyre Affair - in fact, the whole series - is for you. Fforde's writing style is, frankly, not the best (he started in TV, and often while reading you feel as though the prose was intended to be brought to life by actors and sets, not to stand on its own). But I still give Eyre Affair 5 stars for its superb imagination.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-11-16 11:37:11.
(Language: English)
Thursday Next is a literary detective working in a version of the present day somewhat different from our reality. You will get the right idea if I tell you that she has a pet Dodo called Pickwick and is a veteran of the Crimean war, which is still going strong after 130 years. Her time-travelling father is on the run from the ChronoGuard and her uncle Mycroft is an inventor of such marvels as translating carbon paper. Allow me to demonstrate. We'll start with a plain piece of paper, then put in a Spanish carbon, a second slip of paper then a Polish carbon, more paper, German and another sheet and finally French for the last sheet there. He shuffled the bundle and laid it on the desk as I pulled up a chair. Write something on the first sheet. Anything you want Anything? Mycroft nodded so I wrote: Have you seen my dodo? Now what? Mycroft looked triumphant. Have a look, dear girl. I lifted off the top carbon and there, written in my own handwriting were the words: ¿Ha visto mi dodo? But that's amazing! Thank you, replied my Uncle. Have a look at the next! I did. Beneath the Polish carbon was written: Gdzie jest moje dodo? I'm working on hieroglyphics and demonic, Mycroft explained as I peeled off the last sheet to read, slightly disappointingly: Mon aardvark n'a pas de nez. Wait a moment, Uncle. My aardvark has no nose? Mycroft looked over my should and grunted. “You probably weren't pressing hard enough. Another of Mycroft's inventions, the Prose Portal, is rather more controversial. It causes him to be kidnapped by a master criminal who intends to use it to wreak havoc in a classic work of fiction if his extortionate ransom demand isn't met. Thursday has to race against time and a sinister government agency to reach her uncle and the Portal and avert disaster. This was my favourite book of the year and I have now read it three times. Fforde is a less surreal Douglas Adams in the making. The book contains countless literary references – you spot more on every reading – but it is just as enjoyable if you don't get half of them. Have you ever wondered who wrote the Shakespeare plays? Where bananas come from? Why there is a motorway service area called Leigh Delamere? Read this book and find out!
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-01-31 04:31:15.
(Language: English)
This is an interesting concept for a book - and I'm a Jane Eyre lover, as well as an overall bibliophile - but I think it was pretty poorly written. I sometimes forgot who was narrating (it's in the first person... mostly), but I almost uniformly found her a little annoying. A lot of repetitive descriptions (almost everyone she met she "liked immediately"... including her car) and clumsy prose played through a world that was interesting (hey... I'd live in a world that valued literature that much!), but a little overly cute (her boss, Braxton Hicks, for example). There were some extremely out-of-place pieces that were left with no explanation or follow-through, while the ending itself was extremely pat - particularly her final stance on the war and her father's final visit. Overall, I thought it was a pretty amateur attempt at what may or may not have had more to offer. I didn't care about the characters beyond my frustration with them. Overall... it was little more than a novelty novel.
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A Reader posted a review at 2011-02-10 06:23:08.
(Language: English)
If you took the premise behind the Arnold Schwarzenegger film "Last Action Hero", changed it so it's based around classic literature rather than Hollywood bullshit, added a few other sideline quirks like Vampires, Werewolves and Dr Who-like time distortionists and then added a crime fighting detective, you'd have Thursday Next in "The Eyre Affair". This book is absolutely awesome and never for a moment has you teetering on the edge of sleep. Unlike the previous books I've read ("The Hunger Games" trilogy) it ropes the reader in through curiosity and random intelligent concepts which we've all seen before, but never really in the same context as each other and certainly never as well done. I look forward to reading the rest of Thursday Next's antics.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-07-12 09:51:39.
(Language: English)
My sister reccommended this book to me and was unable to accurately describe what it was about. I have noticed that whenever someone tries to explain this book it goes something like this: Okay so the main character is named Thursday and she lives in this parrallel universe, but its a lot like ours, except they use gravitubes and there are some times of magic and stuff. Anyway, someone kidnaps Jane Eyre out of her book and she has to go and like hunt them down because she's like a secret agent type thing. Oh and a Vampire that hunts Vampires helps her and so does a Neanderthal. Anyway, it doesn't really make you want to read it, but the real beauty of this book is that its fun and it witty and its really origional and oh, by the way, the plot is unexplainable but truly good too. First in the series, it was clearly meant to be a stand alone book but the author does a good job of stretching his character over the sequels. This is one of the best pieces of contemporary fiction I've read in years. Its origional, funny, witty and addictive. I advise anyone to go and pick it up.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-01-03 11:33:13.
(Language: English)
I love this book, with its odd cultural reimaginings. A London where the rennaissanceists and the baroqueists team up in alliance against the post-impressionist street gangs; where Richard III is performed Rocky Horror style with audience participation and callbacks; and where you can travel not only in time but in the universe of books. Evil dude breaks into Jane Eyre and holds the heroine hostage? Yup. It's wonderful imaginative stuff, with a rattling good adventure pace. This was a re-read for me, over Xmas. It was good fun this time to see foreshadowing of later novels in the series. There is casual mention of the unscrambled eggs recipe... *dramatic music*
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-06-11 10:00:42.
(Language: English)
Fforde is delightfully quirky in a style that seems to channel Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and Monty Python. The book takes place in an England that is much different than the one we know. Literature is taken very seriously, dodos are the pet of choice thanks to cloning (is that version 1.2?), the Crimean War is still dragging on, time travel requires a ChronoGuard, the true authorship of Shakespearean plays are so hotly debated gang wars have the tendency of breaking out and the line between reality and fiction becomes blurred as people and characters occasionally crossover. Confused? Welcome to the world of Thursday Next, SpecOps 27 Litera Tec officer who must track Acheron Hades through reality and literature to stop him from ransoming classic novels.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-09-21 04:23:23.
(Language: English)
This is a very odd book. It's a very strange book. But it is also a wonderful book. Very firmly aimed at those people who have read not only Jane Eyre, but a lot of classic literature, including Shakespeare, and are comfortable with casual reference to everybody from Hamlet to Miss Havisham. I can't even attempt to describe it, except to say it's set in an alternative universe, where everyone reads, characters come to life, and the mystery of Shakespeares identity is discussed in every pub. Thursday Next gets embroled in the word of Jane Eyre, a book considered perfect - apart from it's ending. No-one, least of all Mr Rochester, can understand why Jane marries that cold fish St JohnRivers....It's delightfully funny, very exciting, and Thursday Next is a wonderfully feisty heroine. A joy to read - once you get used to it. This is the first in a series of books, but this is my favourite - mostly because Mr Rochester is in it a lot.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-10-14 02:43:52.
(Language: English)
This is one of those books I'd avoid like the plague were the word "Eyre" not in the title...an obvious reference to Jane Eyre, one of my favorite books when I was in high school. Fforde concocted this futuristic tale (and introduced a character to recur in several of his novels: Thursday Next) that might possibly rope in both Classics afficionados and sci-fi lovers. He basically does a fine job. His main protagonist, Miss Thursday Next, is a SpecOps cop (on the Literary Crimes beat) who takes on a couple of unsavory fellows bent on stealing her uncle's invention: a "Prose Portal" and bookworms, both used to transport someone into a novel. In the attempt at thwarting the evil-doers, she is transported into "Jane Eyre" and hobnobs with Mr. Rochester and Jane and affects the ending of the novel being changed. Silly romp, but if it sounds good to you, you'll probably enjoy it even more than I did.
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coinoperated posted a review at 2010-08-14 06:37:31.
(Language: English)
This was my first (and possibly last) trip into Fforde’s infamous detective novels, and I’m very disappointed. The premise is excellent, but I didn’t like its style at all. Here’s a snippet on the plot: "There is another 1985, somewhere in the could-have-been, where the Crimean war still rages, dodos are regenerated in home-cloning kits and everyone is deeply disappointed by the ending of ‘Jane Eyre’. In this world there are no jet-liners or computers, but there are policemen who can travel across time, a Welsh republic, a great interest in all things literary – and a woman called Thursday Next. In this utterly original and wonderfully funny first novel, Fforde has created a fiesty, loveable heroine and a plot of such richness and ingenuity that it will take your breath away." I disagree. I didn’t find it wonderfully funny at all. In fact, I found it a very tedious read and it took me a lot longer to get through it than I thought it would. My main issue was the way in which Fforde puts together his sentences. I like the odd play on words when I’m reading a novel because it gives prose a little kick when it’s often needed (and, if you want to include puns in that category, then I suppose I like the odd one of those too). However, what I really object to is their overuse, and this is something that Fforde is guilty of in my opinion. His writing is just one ‘witty little wordplay’ after another and it gets very tired very quickly. It’s well enough written, I suppose, in that Fforde’s grammar and sentence structure is good, but his style is very rather too cumbersome to read. Another issue I had with this novel is that it went on for at least 150 more pages than it needed to (probably because Fforde was spending too long being a cheeky little chappie). If I recall, about five significant events took place in all, yet Fforde managed to prattle on for almost 400 pages. Such extravagance is always off-putting for me, even in literature. Still, though, it’s finished and I’m glad I read it; if only to know that he’s not really for me.
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