Leigh's review
First Among Sequels (Thursday Next Book 5)
by Jasper Fforde
Leigh's review
First Among Sequels (Thursday Next Book 5) by Jasper Fforde
Leigh's review
rating:
Seriously, Jasper Fforde. This has gone far enough.
I thought The Eyre Affair was pretty ingenious. As the series continued, the books seemed to start to fall into a hole, but as the holder of an English B.A. and M.A., I was sticking with Fforde for his clever puns, literary allusions, Shakespeare references, and other literature-related nonsense. I was particularly fond of The Well of Lost Plots, not because it was terribly good, but as a writer I appreciated the fantasy of Bookworld and how stories are created (it's a big machine, people have nothing to do with it, we're "inspired" by what the machine creates, it's complicated). Books two through four were too much, but this was really too much.
Fforde has clearly become so entrenched and obsessed with his fantasy world, he doesn't bother trying to explain anything anymore. If you hadn't read the first four books, you'd be lost on page one. It really seems like a private little joke. All of us c...more
I thought The Eyre Affair was pretty ingenious. As the series continued, the books seemed to start to fall into a hole, but as the holder of an English B.A. and M.A., I was sticking with Fforde for his clever puns, literary allusions, Shakespeare references, and other literature-related nonsense. I was particularly fond of The Well of Lost Plots, not because it was terribly good, but as a writer I appreciated the fantasy of Bookworld and how stories are created (it's a big machine, people have nothing to do with it, we're "inspired" by what the machine creates, it's complicated). Books two through four were too much, but this was really too much.
Fforde has clearly become so entrenched and obsessed with his fantasy world, he doesn't bother trying to explain anything anymore. If you hadn't read the first four books, you'd be lost on page one. It really seems like a private little joke. All of us c...more
