The newest tour de force from The New York Times bestselling author of Thursday Next and Shades of Grey.
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Apr 25, 2011
Bettie
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May 08, 2011
Lorna
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Jasper Fforde has been on my to-read list forever. I haven't read any of the others in the series, but my dad got me this as a gift, so I'm giving it a shot.
Sometimes a little too clever for its own good, but a fun and unique read. Favorite passages:
..."'For all its boundless color, depth, boldness, passion and humor, the RealWorld doesn't appear to have any clearly discernable function.'
'Not that better minds than ours haven't tried to find one.'
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Sometimes a little too clever for its own good, but a fun and unique read. Favorite passages:
..."'For all its boundless color, depth, boldness, passion and humor, the RealWorld doesn't appear to have any clearly discernable function.'
'Not that better minds than ours haven't tried to find one.'
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Apr 25, 2011
Judith
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One of Our Thursdays is Missing: A Novel by Jasper Fford is 6th in his Thursday Next series of literary fantasies. The fictional Thursday begins to find her inner real Thursday when called by the Jurisfiction Accident Investigation Department to report on a book crash. She discovers that all the debris has mysteriously been scrubbed clean of ISBN, and that the real Thursday Next is missing. Leaving her series in the hands of an understudy and, assisted by Sprockett, the clockwork butler, (“It h
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Oct 20, 2011
Steve
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It's been a while since I started the Thursday Next series, and the other books in the series weren't that fresh in my mind, so I was a little overwhelmed by references to ideas and events introduced in previous books. Plus, this work was a little slow to get established for me because I wasn't ready for our main character to be, perhaps, a different character than the other Thursday novels. My final minor gripe with this book, which I nevertheless enjoyed, is what seems to be an overwhelming a
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Jan 05, 2012
Derrick
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The thing I like best about this one, apart from the witty references to current concepts like FanFic and Harry Potter, is that we get to start at the beginning and watch our dear Thursday find herself all over again.
The written Thursday lives in the shadow of the real Thursday, a woman of worldwide fame in both real and book worlds. She starts off rather timid and by the end has learned to trust herself.
Sprockett the clockwork Jeeves is a wonderful character. And the mime More...
The written Thursday lives in the shadow of the real Thursday, a woman of worldwide fame in both real and book worlds. She starts off rather timid and by the end has learned to trust herself.
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Sep 04, 2011
Tina
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I was planning to put off reading Jasper Fforde's latest Thursday Next book until I found the time to reread the first five books. It's been years since I last read any of them, so I thought I'd appreciate reading this latest one better if I read the first ones again. Never mind that there are five of them and it would take significant time off my real TBR. But then I got sick a few weeks before I had to fly to Europe, which got me worried about all kinds More...
I was planning to put off reading Jasper Fforde's latest Thursday Next book until I found the time to reread the first five books. It's been years since I last read any of them, so I thought I'd appreciate reading this latest one better if I read the first ones again. Never mind that there are five of them and it would take significant time off my real TBR. But then I got sick a few weeks before I had to fly to Europe, which got me worried about all kinds More...
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Mar 29, 2011
Lisa
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Oh, I just loved this book. From beginning to its very wonderful end.
I’m in love with Jasper Fforde. He’s got a brilliant imagination and he’s hilarious, so wickedly funny!
At first I was puzzled and missed the “real” Thursday and the “real” Pickwick, but I quickly got on board with this romp. I ended up loving the written Thursday and I loved Sprockett, her butler. I got reminded of the previous books as I read, especially in the little blurbs that start each chapter.
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I’m in love with Jasper Fforde. He’s got a brilliant imagination and he’s hilarious, so wickedly funny!
At first I was puzzled and missed the “real” Thursday and the “real” Pickwick, but I quickly got on board with this romp. I ended up loving the written Thursday and I loved Sprockett, her butler. I got reminded of the previous books as I read, especially in the little blurbs that start each chapter.
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Jul 01, 2011
Kaethe
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One star off of fabulous, because it's slow to get going. Fforde has written a book starring the written version of Next, and she's less adventurous, less brave, less quick, less sexy, and much more dignified than the Real Next. By taking her out of her own book and giving her some detective work, her gradually builds her up until her depth rivals that of her Real equivalent. Maybe she is the Real Next? We don't spend much time in the Real world, but the hours there are loaded with events, and t
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Aug 06, 2011
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If you love diagramming and parsing sentences and following phrases beyond its meaning, you will love the plot development and how Thursday follows the flows and ebbs of innuendos to solve this mystery.
Thursday Next fans will definitely rate this as a 5-star read. If this is your first Thursday Next book, or if you haven't kept up since The Eyre Affair, you may feel a little lost. Not too worry, tho -- just enjoy the read!
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Thursday Next fans will definitely rate this as a 5-star read. If this is your first Thursday Next book, or if you haven't kept up since The Eyre Affair, you may feel a little lost. Not too worry, tho -- just enjoy the read!
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Jan 25, 2012
Bennett
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Grade: A-
L/C Ratio: 50/50
(This means I estimate the author devoted 50% of his effort to creating a literary work of art and 50% of his effort to creating a commercial bestseller.)
Thematic Breakdown:
50% - Epic literary fantasy
30% - Detective mystery
20% - Satire of the publishing industry
As a rule, I do not dabble in book series. This is partly because they tend to exist most often in the fantasy genre (not my preferred reading area), an More...
L/C Ratio: 50/50
(This means I estimate the author devoted 50% of his effort to creating a literary work of art and 50% of his effort to creating a commercial bestseller.)
Thematic Breakdown:
50% - Epic literary fantasy
30% - Detective mystery
20% - Satire of the publishing industry
As a rule, I do not dabble in book series. This is partly because they tend to exist most often in the fantasy genre (not my preferred reading area), an More...
Jan 08, 2012
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Dec 27, 2011
Ross
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Jasper Fforde is one of those authors I simply adore and when a new novel comes out, I am in almost fevered excitement to get my grubby mitts on a copy. With all the reading I have to do these days, I rarely have the luxury of being able to re-read a novel, just for the enjoyment of it. Fforde is one of those I know I shall re-read.
Fforde's Thursday Next novels, and the spin-off Jack Spratt series, pretty much defy description. But I shall try.
Thursday Next, the real Thur More...
Fforde's Thursday Next novels, and the spin-off Jack Spratt series, pretty much defy description. But I shall try.
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Sep 29, 2011
Hélène
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Pas eu trop de mal à le lire (7h de train en deux jours, qu'il a fallu occuper, ça aide), mais, au final... Plutôt déçue.
Changement d'univers du BookWorld de façon assez bizarre. Evidemment, ça permet un meilleur environnement pour l'histoire, cet environnement réalisto-géographique au lieu de la Grande Librairie, mais je trouve que ça perd totalement son côté "nextien".
J'ai pas été passionnée par l'intrigue. Ca manquait, je trouve, des millions de références littéraires auxq More...
Changement d'univers du BookWorld de façon assez bizarre. Evidemment, ça permet un meilleur environnement pour l'histoire, cet environnement réalisto-géographique au lieu de la Grande Librairie, mais je trouve que ça perd totalement son côté "nextien".
J'ai pas été passionnée par l'intrigue. Ca manquait, je trouve, des millions de références littéraires auxq More...
Sep 18, 2011
Anthony
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I hesitated to start this one, purely on the basis that I knew I didn't have anything to follow it up with – having read the spin-off ‘Nursery crimes’ books before starting on the Thursday next series, I was a little bit reticent to launch into this last (Or at least, most recent) book in the series.
I needn't have worried, Though – 1 Of Our Thursdays Is Missing is both a fitting final work in the series, but also leaves open the possibility of more down the track (please, let it be s More...
I needn't have worried, Though – 1 Of Our Thursdays Is Missing is both a fitting final work in the series, but also leaves open the possibility of more down the track (please, let it be s More...
Aug 25, 2011
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Thursday Next has gone missing, and it's up to her book self to save her and solve the mystery--maybe. I think changing the protagonist from the "real" Thursday to the "fictional" one was a good idea, and worked well here. It provided some comedy fodder, and allowed us to focus on a different level of threat--Thursday may be high-nigh invincible at this point, but her fictional equivalent is more of a blank slate. That said, I wasn't particularly fond of the other new char
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Aug 10, 2011
Trish
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This was a fun read that brought me back to the days when I first encountered The Eyre Affair and was introduced to Thursday Next, ace literary detective. Although the main character in this sixth book is the written Thursday Next rather than the original RealWorld person, I soon came to like and respect her for herself. She is charming and earnest, and it was fun to spend so much time in the newly remade BookWorld.
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Jul 23, 2011
Andrew
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Jasper Fforde--what can one say other than the man's a genius. I became an avid fan within the first ten pages of The Eyre Affair, which I picked up while browsing the shelves in Fantasy and was drawn by the reference to my all-time favorite novel. Fforde's latest addition to the Thursday Next series, One Of Our Thursdays Is Missing, is just what one expects from Fforde: a complex plot that both builds on and twists the story line, marvelous characterization, absolutely delightful satire, and a
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Jul 22, 2011
Jocelyn
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This book is not so much about Thursday Next as about the written version of Thursday Next -- that is, not so much about the real Thursday Next who lives in Swindon as the fictional character who plays Thursday Next in the series. Kind of like the implied character, I guess. (Thought I'd add a bit of literary theory to this book review.) Written Thursday Next is on a mission to find the real Thursday Next, and incidentally save BookWorld.
The book seemed much busier than its predecess More...
The book seemed much busier than its predecess More...
Jun 29, 2011
D.L.
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In this, the sixth Thursday Next book, the Written Thursday finds she may be more like the Real Thursday than she expected. If you have not read the previous Thursday Next books, I will caution you that they can be a bit confusing at first. The BookWorld is a very odd place. Imagine every scene and every character from every book ever written, every description from both fiction and nonfiction, existing in their own reality, constructed, not of matter and energy, but of words, letters, and gr
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Jun 18, 2011
Elliott
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In the wake of reading the most recent Thursday Next novel, 'One of Our Thursdays is Missing', I found myself reaching for an earlier volume,'First Among Sequels' and re-reading it, in doing so, I discovered that 'One of our Thursdays...' is actually a kind of re-boot of 'First Among Sequels'(TN-5).
This is interesting, because I hadn't realized that the practice was becoming commonplace, or could work so well, but I've noted it in the work of at least one other writer in my readin More...
This is interesting, because I hadn't realized that the practice was becoming commonplace, or could work so well, but I've noted it in the work of at least one other writer in my readin More...
Jun 06, 2011
Chip
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I like the Thursday Next world, and had high hopes for this book, but it reads like a pale copy of the earlier ones (and considering it focuses on the character Thursday Next and not the real one, perhaps that was the intended effect). There are lots of colorful characters and settings; BookWorld converted into an Escher sphere and A Clockwork Butler stand out. The mysterious plot isn't solved until the end. This book was in places a chore to read, and must have been a chore to write, lending
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May 27, 2011
Joanne
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We love the word play and literary jokes in this series, so always read them out loud. In this one Thursday Next, the protagonist, runs into a "mime field," for example, where she has to laugh and applaud or the mimes start getting aggressive. However, this installment was pretty slow-going. It took at least half the book to set up the plot, and it was too full of meta-explanations about the Bookworld and its functions and politics. There was lots of running around from genre to g
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May 17, 2011
Kathy
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Sixth in the fantasy Thursday Next series fantastically set in England and the BookWorld.
The Story
Instead of our usual interaction with Thursday Next, most of this story revolves around the written Thursday Next. And, just what is the difference you may ask…well, you are entering a whole new world. The BookWorld (BW) to be exact. Little did you know how this whole reading, authors, books thing works!
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The Story
Instead of our usual interaction with Thursday Next, most of this story revolves around the written Thursday Next. And, just what is the difference you may ask…well, you are entering a whole new world. The BookWorld (BW) to be exact. Little did you know how this whole reading, authors, books thing works!
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May 16, 2011
Deb
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I really enjoy Jasper Fforde, and this book was no exception. My only difficulty with it was that I evidently missed book #5, so I it took me a bit to get up to speed. This book is set primarily in BookWorld where a Genre War is brewing. Thursday Next, the writtenversion is the heroine of the hour when she is asked by Jurisfiction to investigate a book disintegration, and to determine where the RealWorld Thursday Next has gone. Along the way she acquires Sprockett, a robot-butler, and runs a
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May 08, 2011
Becky
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In the Nextian Universe there are, basically, two worlds. In the RealWorld, dodos are household pets and Neanderthals productive members of society, there is an active black market for cheese and a Socialist Republic of Wales (where, its tourism board proclaims, it's "Not always raining). There is also a BookWorld, in which the genres vie for domination, characters from books are ranked socially according to how often their books are read, and raw metaphor is one of the hottest commodities
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May 08, 2011
Alex
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After five books in a series, readers may find themselves getting tired of the series’ protagonist. I remember that in later books in the Harry Potter series I began to find him annoying. And often in long-running mystery series I need to take a break for a while from the character before returning. At the same time, however, I still care about the character and do want to know more. I’m just saturated.
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May 02, 2011
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Apr 30, 2011
Julie
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I'm torn as to how to review this latest Jasper Fforde entry. I've enjoyed all of the Thursday Next series, from The Eyre Affair onward, mostly because they've made me laugh and they've rewarded me for having a nimble mind and a knowledge of history and culture.
After the last book, which seemed to neatly tie everything up, I was wondering what Fforde had in mind to keep the story fresh. Well, he has a nice twist, but it almost feels like a different series. Instead of focusing on T More...
After the last book, which seemed to neatly tie everything up, I was wondering what Fforde had in mind to keep the story fresh. Well, he has a nice twist, but it almost feels like a different series. Instead of focusing on T More...
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Apr 27, 2011
Laura
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Another great addition to the Thursday Next oeuvre, this one starring the written Thursday (or is she the real Thursday suffering a delusion of fictionality?) and filled with some great new characters and interesting takes on familiar ones. Some favorite passages:
I moved quietly to the French windows and stepped out into the garden to release the Lost Positives that the Lady of Shalott had given me. She had a soft spot for the orphaned prefixless words and thought they had more chance toMore...
Apr 15, 2011
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As in the rest of the series, the latest volume in the Thursday Next oeuvre is fast moving, hysterically funny, and amazingly clever, but this time it’s also surprisingly moving. The fictional Thursday Next from the previous sequel is the lead, and in her struggles to save the intrepid real world Thursday Next by trying to figure out what her real world self would do, the fictional Thursday Next is oddly more sympathetic than her living, breathing counterpart.
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