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Title: Lost in a Good Book
Author: Jasper Fforde
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 8/10
# pages: 371
Date read: September, 2006
Summary: In an alternate 1980s England, woolly mammoths migrate through the countryside, Tunbridge Wells has been given to Imperial Russia as Crimean War reparation, and the prevailing culture is based on literature. Due to her adventures in "The Eyre Affair", newly married Thursday Next has become a media darling, but when an unknown work by Shakespeare surfaces, she is happy to be back to work. However, the megacorporation Goliath hasn't finished bedeviling her: Thursday's husband has been "time-slipped" and exists only in her memory. Further complicating matters, her Uncle Mycroft gives her an entroposcope-a jar of lentils and rice-revealing that the chaos in her life is rapidly escalating. So once again, Thursday jumps into a surreal literary world. This time, she has joined the "Jurisfiction" division and is paired with Charles Dickens's Miss Havesham, who has a penchant for leather jackets and driving recklessly. Absurd and amusing scenes take readers through discussions on theoretical physics, geometry, literature, art, and philosophy. Fforde not only tilts at ideological and insipid corporate windmills and human foibles, but can also make the naming of minor characters hilarious, as in the two unfortunate members of the dangerous SO-5 division, Phodder and Kannon.
Review: I read and loved "The Eyre Affair" in August of 2006, so figured I had to read the sequels as well, and this one at least didn't disappoint. I love how the author uses the media of a book to get his point across... if somebody hears voices in their head that nobody else can hear, this is shown by that conversation being held in footnotes! If somebody's whispering, it's written with a smaller font etc. Absolutely hilarious! I have to keep a look out for the next one.
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Author: Jasper Fforde
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 8/10
# pages: 371
Date read: September, 2006
Summary: In an alternate 1980s England, woolly mammoths migrate through the countryside, Tunbridge Wells has been given to Imperial Russia as Crimean War reparation, and the prevailing culture is based on literature. Due to her adventures in "The Eyre Affair", newly married Thursday Next has become a media darling, but when an unknown work by Shakespeare surfaces, she is happy to be back to work. However, the megacorporation Goliath hasn't finished bedeviling her: Thursday's husband has been "time-slipped" and exists only in her memory. Further complicating matters, her Uncle Mycroft gives her an entroposcope-a jar of lentils and rice-revealing that the chaos in her life is rapidly escalating. So once again, Thursday jumps into a surreal literary world. This time, she has joined the "Jurisfiction" division and is paired with Charles Dickens's Miss Havesham, who has a penchant for leather jackets and driving recklessly. Absurd and amusing scenes take readers through discussions on theoretical physics, geometry, literature, art, and philosophy. Fforde not only tilts at ideological and insipid corporate windmills and human foibles, but can also make the naming of minor characters hilarious, as in the two unfortunate members of the dangerous SO-5 division, Phodder and Kannon.
Review: I read and loved "The Eyre Affair" in August of 2006, so figured I had to read the sequels as well, and this one at least didn't disappoint. I love how the author uses the media of a book to get his point across... if somebody hears voices in their head that nobody else can hear, this is shown by that conversation being held in footnotes! If somebody's whispering, it's written with a smaller font etc. Absolutely hilarious! I have to keep a look out for the next one.
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