false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256023119m/27000.jpg 27000 25 The inventive, exuberant, and totally original literary fun that began with <I>The Eyre Affair</I> continues with Jasper Fforde's magnificent second adventure starring the resourceful, fearless literary sleuth Thursday Next. When Landen, the love of her life, is eradicated by the corrupt multinational Goliath Corporation, Thursday must moonlight as a Prose Resource Operative of Jurisfiction'the police force inside books. She is apprenticed to the man-hating Miss Havisham from Dickens's <I>Great Expectations</I>, who grudgingly shows Thursday the ropes. And she gains just enough skill to get herself in a real mess entering the pages of Poe's <i>The Raven</I>. What she really wants is to get Landen back. But this latest mission is not without further complications. Along with jumping into the works of Kafka and Austen, and even Beatrix Potter's <I>The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies</I>, Thursday finds herself the target of a series of potentially lethal coincidences, the authenticator of a newly discovered play by the Bard himself, and the only one who can prevent an unidentifiable pink sludge from engulfing all life on Earth. 1918119 book 2002 Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2) total:7118|5:2248|4:3262|3:1389|2:189|1:30| 7118 28863 8835 585 3 9 false false Tue Jul 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 05:44:37 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 12:10:41 -0700 2009 1` 3.5 stars

Thursday Next is happily married, pregnant, still working as a Literary Detective in SO-17 and the toast of the town of Swindon for her work in the case of The Eyre Affair. But all is not cookies and cream for long. Landen is eradicated by Goliath Corporation to blackmail Thur...more...]]> 4 5 false false Wed Mar 05 07:48:24 -0800 2008 Mon May 05 15:00:35 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 3 false false Mon Mar 02 11:04:41 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 11:12:23 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 4 false false Tue Oct 14 16:47:23 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 11 21:41:58 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 14 16:47:23 -0700 2008
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Thursday's exploits in Jane Eyre have made her a bit of a celebrity, which means she has to make regular appearances on TV. Not everybody likes her, though; a mysterious foe ...more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Wed Sep 05 07:36:31 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 18 16:06:59 -0700 2008 The Eyre Affair. [later purchased this]

The second book starts with Thursday as a semi-newlywed, continuing her work with SpecOps 27, the Literary Detectives Division. In between giving unwilling in...more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun May 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 12 12:51:55 -0700 2008 Sun May 04 17:44:02 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 09:50:31 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 09:24:42 -0800 2008 1 love Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series. Set in an alternative history of England (and the world in general), where 27 levels of Special-Ops monitor everything and the mega-corporation Goliath is waiting to take over the world, it follows Thursday's adventures as a L...more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sun Dec 28 08:38:50 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 08:39:19 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Sep 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 17 23:32:09 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 28 23:16:48 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Sep 07 02:04:25 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 07 02:10:22 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 19 17:32:26 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 18 22:48:19 -0700 2007
Taking away the...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Wed Nov 14 17:32:43 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 14 17:38:30 -0800 2007 more...]]> 2 1 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 10 12:42:12 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 23 13:30:09 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Dec 23 09:48:24 -0800 2007 Fri Jan 04 09:10:46 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Apr 14 15:45:23 -0700 2007 Sat Apr 14 16:04:25 -0700 2007 The Eyre Affair), this is nerdy, imaginative and completely insane. There wasn't a chapter that didn't make me giggle, and there wasn't a single person who understood when I tried to explain what was so funny. Fforde knows his stuff, and, being done ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Mar 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 28 16:51:30 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 28 17:21:07 -0700 2009
The plot is well developed and builds itself upon the intriguing idea (logically presented in the first book) that the characters of the worl...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 10 21:17:28 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 21:34:05 -0800 2009 For the most part it's an enjoyable and engaging read. It, like all of Fforde's books, is filled - perhaps overfilled - not only ...more...]]> 1 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 09:39:22 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 09:46:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Aug 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 07:45:32 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 08:04:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=27000