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  <title><![CDATA[Something Rotten (Thursday Next, #4)]]></title>
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  <default_description>Detective Thursday Next has had her fill of her responsibilities as the Bellman of Jurisfiction. Packing up her son, Friday, Thursday returns to Swindon accompanied by none other than the dithering Danish prince Hamlet. But returning to SpecOps is no snap --- as outlaw fictioneer Yorrick Kaine plots for absolute power, the return of Swindon's patron saint fortells doom, and if that isn't bad enough, back in the Book World The Merry Wives of Windsor is becoming entangled with Hamlet. Can Thursday find a Shakespeare clone to stop this hostile takeover? Can she vanquish Kaine and prevent the world from plunging into war? And, most important, will she ever find reliable child care? Find out in this totally original, action-packed romp, sure to be another escapist thrill for Jasper Fforde's legion of fans.</default_description>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The fouth instalment of the Thursday Next series is my favourite one, the one in which all the plotlines set out earlier are woven together and political satire enters the series in a grand way.<br/><br/>In <em>Something Rotten</em>, Thursday returns from the book world to late-1980s England with her two-y...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12276038">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sat Jun 16 06:55:26 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Since this is probably my favorite of the Thursday Next novels, I will write about it- but I would highly recommend all of them.  Thursday Next inhabits an England that seems to be from a parallel universe- our own time period, but vastly different.  People actually love reading, and literature is a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2023560">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Dec 29 22:15:48 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Dec 29 22:15:54 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Inventive and unusual, these books are a blast.  Thursday is a wonderful character, and everyone around her is just as much fun, from Spike (the vampire slayer) to Pickwick the dodo.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="4589338">
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Aug 15 10:09:30 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I all the time wonder how I can make up a story like Jasper Fforde does...There's a croquet tournament, people, and the world's fate depends on who will win.  Who thinks of that?  Genuises like Jasper Fforde, that's who.  <br/>I thought the book wrapped up the series nicely...And then I saw the nex...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4589338">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45459732">
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  <date_added>Thu Feb 05 09:27:51 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Feb 05 09:27:51 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[<p>The fourth title in the highly original <em>Thursday Next</em> series may attract new readers to Fforde's witty world. Fforde began with <em>The Eyre Affair</em> (**** Summer 2002), followed by <em>Lost in a Good Book</em> (***1/2 July/Aug 2003) and <em>The Well of Lost Plots</em> (**** July/Aug 2004). Loyal fans will once again appre...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45459732">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44878348">
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jan 30 12:55:04 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jan 30 12:55:22 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jasper Fforde launched a memorable and quirky series when he wrote The Eyre Affair, starring Thursday Next, a Literary Detective who saves Jane Eyre from a kidnapper, and introduces a peculiar world in which the lines between reality and fiction are blurred if not invisible. Thursday's adventures co...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44878348">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="78289153">
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Nov 19 00:18:52 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Nov 19 00:19:17 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[“Something Rotten” is the fourth book in Jasper Fforde's entertaining and funny Thursday Next series. For two and a half years Thursday has lived in the literary world.  She now heads the Jurisfiction Agency.  Their goal to “safeguard the stability of the written word&quot; in literature cause...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78289153">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Oct 20 11:59:32 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Oct 20 12:20:46 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Thursday Next, an English detective who mingles--literally--in the world of fiction, seeks to have her husband resurrected when her hands become full with her toddler son and her new companion, Prince Hamlet, and finds herself juggling Shakespeare clones and trying to save the world through a high-s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75142496">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="71382951">
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The fourth Thursday Next novel brings new elements into the series, ties together many plotlines that have been going on in the previously novels, and offers a breath-taking ride that is at times creaking near the breaking point thanks to all the different story elements loaded onboard.<br/><br/>J...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71382951">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="52155633">
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  <date_added>Thu Apr 09 21:58:50 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, I liked this better than <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27001.The_Well_of_Lost_Plots_Thursday_Next_Book_3_" title="The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next, Book 3) by Jasper Fforde">The Well of Lost Plots</a>, though not quite as much as <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27003.The_Eyre_Affair_Thursday_Next_Book_1_" title="The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, Book 1) by Jasper Fforde">The Eyre Affair</a> or <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27000.Lost_in_a_Good_Book_Thursday_Next_Book_2_" title="Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, Book 2) by Jasper Fforde">Lost in a Good Book</a>.  In this book, Thursday returns to the real world, now with a two-year-old son, hoping to finally recover her husband and defeat Yorrick Kaine.  There were some funny moments, a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52155633">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Thursday Next has had it with the world of fiction, so she returns to the &quot;real&quot; world to un-eradicate her husband, Landon, and to send Yorrick Kane back to whatever book he belongs in, just NOT living in the real world as tyrant of Britain and co-conspirator of the Goliath COrporation.  S...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71525730">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sat Aug 15 09:40:53 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Retour à Swindon, dans le Monde Extérieur, pour la célèbre détective littéraire Thursday Next désireuse d'offrir à son fils, Friday, une vie paisible... Le vœu pieux dans toute sa splendeur! <br/><br/>D'abord, elle n'aurait jamais dû accepter d'embarquer Hamlet dans la réalité. <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67494834">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="58032376">
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  <date_added>Mon Jun 01 00:28:58 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the Fforde we've been waiting for. The characters and plot lines from the previous books are handled so well and blended into this wonder of a novel. <br/><br/>There are plenty of laugh out loud passages in the book. Fforde is at his sarcastic and creative best here as Thursday Next fights...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58032376">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[There were a few clever bits to this book -- The Cat Formerly Known as Chesire dueling Yorrick Kaine being the most clever in my view. However, I really didn't enjoy it as much as The Eyre Affair, the first in the series. I decided that choice about halfway through reading this one -- The Well was g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48360279">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Thursday Next has been the Bellman for a couple of years now, but she's ready to go back to the real world.  Along with Hamlet (who's concerned about the outside world's perception of him as a ditherer), Thursday returns determined to get her husband Landen uneradicated and to send Yorrick Kaine bac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48685807">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67802012">
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    <body><![CDATA[Fourth in a series.  You can count on Fforde for clever puns as well as literary allusions and critiques coming fast and from such a broad range of different genres that keeping up as you go along is half the challenge--and I mean challenge in an exhilirating way, if you do love books and enjoy an e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67802012">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What really amazes me about this series is how well-planned it is. Seemingly random incidents or comments as far back as the first book turn out to have relevance in this book, the fourth. I'm loving the way it all comes together.<br/><br/>This book was quite satisfying, given that the multi-natio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39966109">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another excellent installment of the Thursday Next series. The creativity and imagination of Jasper Fforde's knows no bounds. Every book consistently has the same amount of somewhat manic energy that is sustained throughout by all the slightly insane happenings. This plotline represented a transitio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57547704">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[And alas, the joke gets old as Landen pops in and out of existence.  More than a little wacky, the novel is packed with screwball details as characters get &quot;written&quot; in and out of the story, hybridized creatures stalk malls and Shakespeare clones start popping up everywhere.  Fforde contin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63223931">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A friend recommended this series. I found it compelling enough to read all of the books and want to know what would happen next but I don't know how &quot;good&quot; the writing is. The series takes place in a parallel universe and involves time travel but sometimes I think the writer is either tryi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46851507">more...</a>]]></body>
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