The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel
Meet Thursday Next, literary detective without equal, fear or boyfriend Jasper Fforde's beloved New York Times bestselling novel introduces literary detective Thursday Next and her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England--from the author of The Constant Rabbit Fans of Douglas Adams and P. G. Wodehouse will love visiting Jasper Fforde's Great Britain, circa 1985, when time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously: it's a bibliophile's dream. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem and forging Byronic verse is a punishable offense. All this is business as usual for Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative in literary detection. But when someone begins kidnapping characters from works of literature and plucks Jane Eyre from the pages of Brontë's novel, Thursday is faced with the challenge of her career. Fforde's ingenious fantasy--enhanced by a Web site that re-creates the world of the novel--unites intrigue with English literature in a delightfully witty mix.
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3.5 stars!
This was a very...odd book. I can't think of another way to describe it. I did enjoy the book, but it just was really unique. There's not really anything else like it. The world was original and it was a zany adventure through a classic story (Jane Eyre, obviously) with a villain with Kilgrave-like powers and the ability to jump in and out of stories. The first part was a little slow and it really took almost half the book for it to rea...read more
This was a very...odd book. I can't think of another way to describe it. I did enjoy the book, but it just was really unique. There's not really anything else like it. The world was original and it was a zany adventure through a classic story (Jane Eyre, obviously) with a villain with Kilgrave-like powers and the ability to jump in and out of stories. The first part was a little slow and it really took almost half the book for it to rea...read more
Delightful! Full of suspense, wit, quirky characters, imaginative premises and so many lovely winks at English literature. I honestly don't know whether to call this speculative fiction or fantasy. Set in 1985, but a year in which time travel exists and people value and discuss literature. Not the 1985 I remember. At all. But Russia is still trying to take over the world... Anyway our heroine, Thursday Next, researches literary crimes: forger...read more
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