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Thursday Next #2
Lost in a Good Book
Thursday Next, literary detective and newlywed is back to embark on an adventure that begins, quite literally on her own doorstep. It seems that Landen, her husband of four weeks, actually drowned in an accident when he was two years old. Someone, somewhere, sometime, is responsible. Having barely caught her breath after The Eyre Affair, Thursday must battle corrupt politicians, try to save the world from extinction, and help the Neanderthals to species self-determination. Mastodon migrations, journeys into Just William, a chance meeting with the Flopsy Bunnies, and violent life-and-death struggles in the summer sales are all part of a greater plan. But whose? and why?
10 pages, Audio CD
First published March 31, 2002
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About the author
Jasper Fforde
49 books13.1k followersFforde began his career in the film industry, and for nineteen years held a variety of posts on such movies as Goldeneye, The Mask of Zorro and Entrapment. Secretly harbouring a desire to tell his own stories rather than help other people tell their's, Jasper started writing in 1988, and spent eleven years secretly writing novel after novel as he strove to find a style of his own that was a no-mans-land somewhere between the warring factions of Literary and Absurd.
After receiving 76 rejection letters from publishers, Jasper's first novel The Eyre Affair was taken on by Hodder & Stoughton and published in July 2001. Set in 1985 in a world that is similar to our own, but with a few crucial - and bizarre - differences (Wales is a socialist republic, the Crimean War is still ongoing and the most popular pets are home-cloned dodos), The Eyre Affair introduces literary detective named 'Thursday Next'. Thursday's job includes spotting forgeries of Shakespeare's lost plays, mending holes in narrative plot lines, and rescuing characters who have been kidnapped from literary masterpieces.
Luckily for Jasper, the novel garnered dozens of effusive reviews, and received high praise from the press, from booksellers and readers throughout the UK. In the US The Eyre Affair was also an instant hit, entering the New York Times Bestseller List in its first week of publication.
Since then, Jasper has added another six to the Thursday Next series and has also begun a second series that he calls 'Nursery Crime', featuring Jack Spratt of The Nursery Crime Division. In the first book, 'The Big Over Easy', Humpty Dumpty is the victim in a whodunnit, and in the second, 'The Fourth Bear', the Three Bear's connection to Goldilocks disappearance can finally be revealed.
In January 2010 Fforde published 'Shades of Grey', in which a fragmented society struggle to survive in a colour-obsessed post-apocalyptic landscape.
His latest series is for Young Adults and include 'The Last Dragonslayer' (2010), 'Song of the Quarkbeast' (2011) and 'The Eye of Zoltar' (2013). All the books centre around Jennifer Strange, who manages a company of magicians named 'Kazam', and her attempts to keep the noble arts from the clutches of big business and property tycoons.
Jasper's 14th Book, 'Early Riser', a thriller set in a world in which humans have always hibernated, is due out in the UK in August 2018, and in the US in 2019.
Fforde failed his Welsh Nationality Test by erroneously identifying Gavin Henson as a TV chef, but continues to live and work in his adopted nation despite this setback. He has a Welsh wife, two welsh daughters and a welsh dog, who is mad but not because he's Welsh. He has a passion for movies, photographs, and aviation. (Jasper, not the dog)
Series:
* Thursday Next
* Nursery Crime
* Shades of Grey
After receiving 76 rejection letters from publishers, Jasper's first novel The Eyre Affair was taken on by Hodder & Stoughton and published in July 2001. Set in 1985 in a world that is similar to our own, but with a few crucial - and bizarre - differences (Wales is a socialist republic, the Crimean War is still ongoing and the most popular pets are home-cloned dodos), The Eyre Affair introduces literary detective named 'Thursday Next'. Thursday's job includes spotting forgeries of Shakespeare's lost plays, mending holes in narrative plot lines, and rescuing characters who have been kidnapped from literary masterpieces.
Luckily for Jasper, the novel garnered dozens of effusive reviews, and received high praise from the press, from booksellers and readers throughout the UK. In the US The Eyre Affair was also an instant hit, entering the New York Times Bestseller List in its first week of publication.
Since then, Jasper has added another six to the Thursday Next series and has also begun a second series that he calls 'Nursery Crime', featuring Jack Spratt of The Nursery Crime Division. In the first book, 'The Big Over Easy', Humpty Dumpty is the victim in a whodunnit, and in the second, 'The Fourth Bear', the Three Bear's connection to Goldilocks disappearance can finally be revealed.
In January 2010 Fforde published 'Shades of Grey', in which a fragmented society struggle to survive in a colour-obsessed post-apocalyptic landscape.
His latest series is for Young Adults and include 'The Last Dragonslayer' (2010), 'Song of the Quarkbeast' (2011) and 'The Eye of Zoltar' (2013). All the books centre around Jennifer Strange, who manages a company of magicians named 'Kazam', and her attempts to keep the noble arts from the clutches of big business and property tycoons.
Jasper's 14th Book, 'Early Riser', a thriller set in a world in which humans have always hibernated, is due out in the UK in August 2018, and in the US in 2019.
Fforde failed his Welsh Nationality Test by erroneously identifying Gavin Henson as a TV chef, but continues to live and work in his adopted nation despite this setback. He has a Welsh wife, two welsh daughters and a welsh dog, who is mad but not because he's Welsh. He has a passion for movies, photographs, and aviation. (Jasper, not the dog)
Series:
* Thursday Next
* Nursery Crime
* Shades of Grey
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June 14, 2020
The idea of parallel universes, alternate timelines, uchronias,… is an often used trope, but in this constellation and with the interconnections and dependencies on and in the real book world and the not any more so just fictional second world, it gives the idea a whole new dimension.
It´s close to a literary and sociological experiment to integrate the worldview, mentality, history, of the time the novels were created and how they influenced the awareness about those times and how novels are more than just entertainment, but studies about different times of human history, of changing morality, genre pictures, true crime history distilled on pages.
The authors´ influence reaches a whole new dimension if one sees fictional works not just as something existing in the writers and readers mind, but as real and true worldbuilding, a kind of superpower to construct new worlds, the ultimate mind over matter proof, the option to be a creator of fictional universes for everybody.
Time travel, split up personalities that could develop in different directions, criticism of cartels, one world trying to take over the other, exaggeration of many character tropes, evil powers trying to destroy one of the worlds or subjects in it,… there is so much hidden in this universe that it´s difficult to get it all in just one read. It´s one of the greatest love letters to reading and literature in general too.
I imagine that a series like this could go on close to forever because the options are on the table and there is not just all literature ever written, but everything published this day, not to mention new forms of art such as video games and the good old buddies movies and series that are now having a renaissance thanks to VR and AR. An expanded satire universe like this would be something I want to totally get lost in.
Tropes show how literature is conceptualized and created and which mixture of elements makes works and genres unique:
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It´s close to a literary and sociological experiment to integrate the worldview, mentality, history, of the time the novels were created and how they influenced the awareness about those times and how novels are more than just entertainment, but studies about different times of human history, of changing morality, genre pictures, true crime history distilled on pages.
The authors´ influence reaches a whole new dimension if one sees fictional works not just as something existing in the writers and readers mind, but as real and true worldbuilding, a kind of superpower to construct new worlds, the ultimate mind over matter proof, the option to be a creator of fictional universes for everybody.
Time travel, split up personalities that could develop in different directions, criticism of cartels, one world trying to take over the other, exaggeration of many character tropes, evil powers trying to destroy one of the worlds or subjects in it,… there is so much hidden in this universe that it´s difficult to get it all in just one read. It´s one of the greatest love letters to reading and literature in general too.
I imagine that a series like this could go on close to forever because the options are on the table and there is not just all literature ever written, but everything published this day, not to mention new forms of art such as video games and the good old buddies movies and series that are now having a renaissance thanks to VR and AR. An expanded satire universe like this would be something I want to totally get lost in.
Tropes show how literature is conceptualized and created and which mixture of elements makes works and genres unique:
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April 30, 2023
Book Review
Jasper Fforde had a stroke of brilliance with the "Thursday Next" series of adventure books. Lost in a Good Book is the second release in the series and I've given it a very high 3 of 5 stars. As it's a very difficult book to truly wrap your head around, it couldn't get a 5 from me. When I compared it to the first one, The Eyre Affair, I had to give it a slightly lower rating just because I enjoyed the first one more. A few really cool things about these books:
1. Thursday is a literary detective who can jump into a book to try to solve whatever crime has occurred within the book.
2. Crimes can include changing plot lines, removing characters, introducing chaos...
3. You have to be mad or brilliant, or both, to come up with these kinds of stores. In this one, "The Raven" and "Flopsy Bunny" are major character arcs. Can you imagine dealing with that?
4. The book has footnotes on every page, but they're not real footnotes. They are commentary or thoughts about what's being said in the book that the person talking wouldn't necessarily know, but the reader needs to know them. I'm sure you're confused if you've never read one of these books. So am I from time to time, and I've read three of them.
5. It's such a great concept, and sometimes well-executed. And it's got your typical romance component in it too.
6. But it can get very confusing if you don't read slowly and think about every single action. There are so many made up words, actions, histories... it's an alternative fantasy universe and you never know what might actually happen.
7. At times, I think it's one of the best stories I've read. At others, it's still confusing me. But I focus on the little parts surrounding the realities of the characters and what they are doing.
Phew.... complicated to write this review. It can't be a normal one without it going on for pages about what is actually going on. All you need to know is if you have a huge imagination, don't need structure, and love books... you must give it a chance.
About Me
For those new to me or my reviews... here's the scoop: I read A LOT. I write A LOT. And now I blog A LOT. First the book review goes on Goodreads, and then I send it on over to my WordPress blog at https://thisismytruthnow.com, where you'll also find TV & Film reviews, the revealing and introspective 365 Daily Challenge and lots of blogging about places I've visited all over the world. And you can find all my social media profiles to get the details on the who/what/when/where and my pictures. Leave a comment and let me know what you think. Vote in the poll and ratings. Thanks for stopping by. Note: All written content is my original creation and copyrighted to me, but the graphics and images were linked from other sites and belong to them. Many thanks to their original creators.
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Jasper Fforde had a stroke of brilliance with the "Thursday Next" series of adventure books. Lost in a Good Book is the second release in the series and I've given it a very high 3 of 5 stars. As it's a very difficult book to truly wrap your head around, it couldn't get a 5 from me. When I compared it to the first one, The Eyre Affair, I had to give it a slightly lower rating just because I enjoyed the first one more. A few really cool things about these books:
1. Thursday is a literary detective who can jump into a book to try to solve whatever crime has occurred within the book.
2. Crimes can include changing plot lines, removing characters, introducing chaos...
3. You have to be mad or brilliant, or both, to come up with these kinds of stores. In this one, "The Raven" and "Flopsy Bunny" are major character arcs. Can you imagine dealing with that?
4. The book has footnotes on every page, but they're not real footnotes. They are commentary or thoughts about what's being said in the book that the person talking wouldn't necessarily know, but the reader needs to know them. I'm sure you're confused if you've never read one of these books. So am I from time to time, and I've read three of them.
5. It's such a great concept, and sometimes well-executed. And it's got your typical romance component in it too.
6. But it can get very confusing if you don't read slowly and think about every single action. There are so many made up words, actions, histories... it's an alternative fantasy universe and you never know what might actually happen.
7. At times, I think it's one of the best stories I've read. At others, it's still confusing me. But I focus on the little parts surrounding the realities of the characters and what they are doing.
Phew.... complicated to write this review. It can't be a normal one without it going on for pages about what is actually going on. All you need to know is if you have a huge imagination, don't need structure, and love books... you must give it a chance.
About Me
For those new to me or my reviews... here's the scoop: I read A LOT. I write A LOT. And now I blog A LOT. First the book review goes on Goodreads, and then I send it on over to my WordPress blog at https://thisismytruthnow.com, where you'll also find TV & Film reviews, the revealing and introspective 365 Daily Challenge and lots of blogging about places I've visited all over the world. And you can find all my social media profiles to get the details on the who/what/when/where and my pictures. Leave a comment and let me know what you think. Vote in the poll and ratings. Thanks for stopping by. Note: All written content is my original creation and copyrighted to me, but the graphics and images were linked from other sites and belong to them. Many thanks to their original creators.
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March 9, 2026
➽ And the moral of this rererereread is: the character names in this series are everything. And that is a scientifically proven fact. Also, this:
You better believe it.
👋 Until next time.
[November 2020]
Actual rating: 4.5 stars.
➽ And the moral of this rerereread is: I want to work at Jurisfiction when I grow up. Because Miss Havisham (aka the newest addition to the Fast and Furious cast) + the Red Queen + the Cheshire Cat + Prose Resource Operatives +Sense and Sensibility Confusion and Conviviality + PageRunners + preposterous stuff vs. Kafkaesque stuff + the Character Exchange Program + the vertebrate uberclassics not translating well into Arthropod + ISBN Positioning System + Footnoterphones + Heathcliff Protection Duty + the lobster market and the crustacean readership + grammasites and adjectivores and verminators, oh my + uh-oh, I think we've been boojummed =
➽ And the other moral of this rerereread is: rice and lentils, never leave home without them. Because you never know when an entroposcope will come in handy. Oh, and also: Phodder and Kannon + thou shalt not spank the mammoth (no indeed, thou shalt not) + Gerhard Von Squid + chain-smoking dodos + the Brotherhood of Unconstrained Verbosity + Mr Perkup + Shakespeare using ballpoint pens (or not) + the Cheese Squad + Eradications Anonymous + Pontefract Cakes (YUM) + Lamb and Slaughter + isolated high coincidental localised entropic field decreasement (don't ask) + strawberry-flavoured pudding mix (I told you not to ask) =
👋 To be continued and stuff.
· Book 1: The Eyre Affair ★★★★★
· Book 3: The Well of Lost Plots ★★★★★
· Book 4: Something Rotten ★★★★★
· Book 5: First Among Sequels ★★★★
· Book 6: One of Our Thursdays is Missing ★★★
· Book 7: The Woman Who Died a Lot ★★★★
· Book 8: Dark Reading Matter - to be published
[June 2013]
I read Lost in a Good Book when it was first published but decided to read the whole series again before burying myself in its last instalment, The Woman Who Died a Lot.
I was a bit disappointed after reading The Eyre Affair the second time around (it wasn't as enjoyable as I remembered it) so I wasn't sure what to expect from Lost in a Good Book. Still, I shouldn't have worried as this is such a great read!
The book is packed with wild, hilarious ideas : Thursday Next becomes an apprentice to Miss Havisham (from "Great Expectations" and incidentally a mad driver) in order to become a Jurisfiction Prose Resource Operative (agents whose job is to maintain the integrity of popular fiction), she is prosecuted in Kafka's "The Trial", someone tries to kill her through coincidences, there are grammasites that live inside books and feed on grammar, a Character Exchange Programme so that characters can vacation in a book other than the one they belong to, the Cheshire Cat is the librarian for The Great Library... These are only a few of the great ideas that make this book a fantastic read! Now on to read The Well of Lost Plots again :)
[November 2005]
Fforde has done it again! As in the Eyre Affair, the book is packed with literary references and wild, hilarious ideas : Thursday Next becomes an apprentice to Miss Havisham (from "Great Expectations" and incidentally a mad driver) in order to become a Jurisfiction Prose Resource Operative (agents whose job is to maintain the integrity of popular fiction), she is prosecuted in Kafka's "The Trial", someone tries to kill her through coincidences, there are grammasites that live inside books and feed on grammar, a Character Exchange Programme so that characters can vacation in a book other than the one they belong to, the Cheshire Cat is the librarian for The Great Library... This book is absolutely brilliant, I can't wait to read "The Well of Lost Plots!"
You better believe it.
👋 Until next time.
[November 2020]
Actual rating: 4.5 stars.
➽ And the moral of this rerereread is: I want to work at Jurisfiction when I grow up. Because Miss Havisham (aka the newest addition to the Fast and Furious cast) + the Red Queen + the Cheshire Cat + Prose Resource Operatives +
➽ And the other moral of this rerereread is: rice and lentils, never leave home without them. Because you never know when an entroposcope will come in handy. Oh, and also: Phodder and Kannon + thou shalt not spank the mammoth (no indeed, thou shalt not) + Gerhard Von Squid + chain-smoking dodos + the Brotherhood of Unconstrained Verbosity + Mr Perkup + Shakespeare using ballpoint pens (or not) + the Cheese Squad + Eradications Anonymous + Pontefract Cakes (YUM) + Lamb and Slaughter + isolated high coincidental localised entropic field decreasement (don't ask) + strawberry-flavoured pudding mix (I told you not to ask) =
👋 To be continued and stuff.
· Book 1: The Eyre Affair ★★★★★
· Book 3: The Well of Lost Plots ★★★★★
· Book 4: Something Rotten ★★★★★
· Book 5: First Among Sequels ★★★★
· Book 6: One of Our Thursdays is Missing ★★★
· Book 7: The Woman Who Died a Lot ★★★★
· Book 8: Dark Reading Matter - to be published
[June 2013]
I read Lost in a Good Book when it was first published but decided to read the whole series again before burying myself in its last instalment, The Woman Who Died a Lot.
I was a bit disappointed after reading The Eyre Affair the second time around (it wasn't as enjoyable as I remembered it) so I wasn't sure what to expect from Lost in a Good Book. Still, I shouldn't have worried as this is such a great read!
The book is packed with wild, hilarious ideas : Thursday Next becomes an apprentice to Miss Havisham (from "Great Expectations" and incidentally a mad driver) in order to become a Jurisfiction Prose Resource Operative (agents whose job is to maintain the integrity of popular fiction), she is prosecuted in Kafka's "The Trial", someone tries to kill her through coincidences, there are grammasites that live inside books and feed on grammar, a Character Exchange Programme so that characters can vacation in a book other than the one they belong to, the Cheshire Cat is the librarian for The Great Library... These are only a few of the great ideas that make this book a fantastic read! Now on to read The Well of Lost Plots again :)
[November 2005]
Fforde has done it again! As in the Eyre Affair, the book is packed with literary references and wild, hilarious ideas : Thursday Next becomes an apprentice to Miss Havisham (from "Great Expectations" and incidentally a mad driver) in order to become a Jurisfiction Prose Resource Operative (agents whose job is to maintain the integrity of popular fiction), she is prosecuted in Kafka's "The Trial", someone tries to kill her through coincidences, there are grammasites that live inside books and feed on grammar, a Character Exchange Programme so that characters can vacation in a book other than the one they belong to, the Cheshire Cat is the librarian for The Great Library... This book is absolutely brilliant, I can't wait to read "The Well of Lost Plots!"
February 7, 2018
This was a reread and I still loved it just as much as the first time around.
Pickwick the dodo gets so many mentions in the early books. The way she looks after her egg and makes "plock plock" noises is delightful. And of course this is the book where something happens to poor Landon. Disappointing because he is one of my favourite characters but still very typical of Fforde's clever, funny and crazy ideas.
Thursday is developing her skills at book jumping and we start to meet all the wonderful characters at Jurisfiction. Miss Havisham, the Cheshire cat, Marianne Dashwood and the Queen of Hearts are just a few of them.
I always love a book about books and this one is brilliant:)
Pickwick the dodo gets so many mentions in the early books. The way she looks after her egg and makes "plock plock" noises is delightful. And of course this is the book where something happens to poor Landon. Disappointing because he is one of my favourite characters but still very typical of Fforde's clever, funny and crazy ideas.
Thursday is developing her skills at book jumping and we start to meet all the wonderful characters at Jurisfiction. Miss Havisham, the Cheshire cat, Marianne Dashwood and the Queen of Hearts are just a few of them.
I always love a book about books and this one is brilliant:)
August 15, 2011
This is one of those books that I wanted to like so much more than I did. Hell, it's one of those books that I feel like I should like more than I do. I mean, with the little literary cameos and the wry humor (and occasionally groan-inducing puns), with the jumping through books and really just the whole thing - it should be right up my alley. But it just doesn't work for me.
Part of it is that I feel it has a little bit of the Un Lun Dun problem - it seems more a showcase for all the nifty ideas and wordplay that Fforde can throw in, but he seems less concerned with developing interesting and/or likable characters and an actual plot line with any sort of momentum.
And part of it is that while I really like the idea of Jurisfiction and it seems like a really cool premise, I'm less enthralled with the execution. Parts of it just don't make sense. For instance,
And maybe there are answers to all these issues, and I just don't care enough to remember them. Or whatever.
There were some things I liked. As I said, I do enjoy some of the puns and wordplay (even if some of it's a bit, erm, low-brow. I mean, I'm ok with low-brow, but it's a little bit said when characters with the names of Schitt-Hause and Mr. Dedman and Mr. Walken are the height of humor.)
And I did like the bits with Mycroft. He's still my favorite character, I think.
Anyway - these books came highly recommended from a trusted source, and they really do seem like they should be something I should enjoy far more than I do, and I wanted to be able to give it at least a 3 star rating, but when about 3/4 of the way through I realized I just wanted it to be over already, I realized that I just couldn't.
And so... I don't know if I'll continue with the series or not. If I do I'll definitely be getting it from the library.
Part of it is that I feel it has a little bit of the Un Lun Dun problem - it seems more a showcase for all the nifty ideas and wordplay that Fforde can throw in, but he seems less concerned with developing interesting and/or likable characters and an actual plot line with any sort of momentum.
And part of it is that while I really like the idea of Jurisfiction and it seems like a really cool premise, I'm less enthralled with the execution. Parts of it just don't make sense. For instance,
And maybe there are answers to all these issues, and I just don't care enough to remember them. Or whatever.
There were some things I liked. As I said, I do enjoy some of the puns and wordplay (even if some of it's a bit, erm, low-brow. I mean, I'm ok with low-brow, but it's a little bit said when characters with the names of Schitt-Hause and Mr. Dedman and Mr. Walken are the height of humor.)
And I did like the bits with Mycroft. He's still my favorite character, I think.
Anyway - these books came highly recommended from a trusted source, and they really do seem like they should be something I should enjoy far more than I do, and I wanted to be able to give it at least a 3 star rating, but when about 3/4 of the way through I realized I just wanted it to be over already, I realized that I just couldn't.
And so... I don't know if I'll continue with the series or not. If I do I'll definitely be getting it from the library.
October 14, 2008
Curses! About 40 pages from the end, I had to run out and get the next book in the Thursday Next series, "Well of Lost Plots." This book doesn't have an ending! Even worse, I got sucked up into it and had to keep going.
"Lost in a Good Book" is the sequel to "The Eyre Affair" starring spec ops officer Thursday Next. To say that Thursday's life is complicated is an understatement. I'm not going to get into the plot or characters of this book. To do so would spoil this book, the preceding book, and the following book. I will say that, unlike "The Eyre Affair", "Lost in a Good Book" does not stand on its own. You must have read the first book to understand it. Then, you will have to read the next book to get any resolution. (I rather suspect that there won't be any resolution in the next book either.)
Now, I rarely read series. It's even more rare for me to read books in a series back to back. But, Jasper Fford is such a compelling writer with such a weird imagination, that I'm breaking my usual rules.
If you like weirdness and literature, and don't mind spending a lot of time on a series, go ahead and read the Thursday Next series. They are a lot of fun.
"Lost in a Good Book" is the sequel to "The Eyre Affair" starring spec ops officer Thursday Next. To say that Thursday's life is complicated is an understatement. I'm not going to get into the plot or characters of this book. To do so would spoil this book, the preceding book, and the following book. I will say that, unlike "The Eyre Affair", "Lost in a Good Book" does not stand on its own. You must have read the first book to understand it. Then, you will have to read the next book to get any resolution. (I rather suspect that there won't be any resolution in the next book either.)
Now, I rarely read series. It's even more rare for me to read books in a series back to back. But, Jasper Fford is such a compelling writer with such a weird imagination, that I'm breaking my usual rules.
If you like weirdness and literature, and don't mind spending a lot of time on a series, go ahead and read the Thursday Next series. They are a lot of fun.
May 19, 2014
I love the sheer inventiveness of Jasper Fforde's books, and in this series, the madcap way that he messes with literature, with both love and a childlike glee, and it makes me happy to have spent some time rereading this book.
Note: The rest of this review has been withdrawn due to the changes in Goodreads policy and enforcement. You can read why I came to this decision here.
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Note: The rest of this review has been withdrawn due to the changes in Goodreads policy and enforcement. You can read why I came to this decision here.
In the meantime, you can read the entire review at Smorgasbook
November 10, 2016
Maybe only a 3.5 star, but it was another fun trip into such a strange world filled with literary references, slippery characters, murder, & mayhem. There's plenty of wry humor, puns, & ridiculous situations to make sure things don't get too serious. I'd call it a cozy mystery, except that belies just how fantastic the world is & there is no way the reader can figure out what is going to happen. I sometimes wonder if the author knows. He writes the way Mrs. Haversham (Yes, the lady from Great Expectations.) drives - with complete abandon & sheer joy. 'It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world except for Lola Thursday. Oh, oh, Lola Thursday...' OK, I'll quit singing now, but if this series had a theme song, that wouldn't be a bad one.
It was a bit uneven, but I put that down to the high points striking me as so funny. There's a great scene at a book sale, for instance. I didn't quit chuckling for several minutes. Reminded me of the time I stood in line at 5am in 20 degree darkness to get Ghost Buster backpacks for the boys for Xmas. That was 30 years ago, so I can laugh about it now. The savagery of mostly mothers on the prowl was shocking & a lot of fun to watch, once I got the backpacks, of course.
Very well narrated which added to the atmosphere. I'm definitely up for another at some point.
It was a bit uneven, but I put that down to the high points striking me as so funny. There's a great scene at a book sale, for instance. I didn't quit chuckling for several minutes. Reminded me of the time I stood in line at 5am in 20 degree darkness to get Ghost Buster backpacks for the boys for Xmas. That was 30 years ago, so I can laugh about it now. The savagery of mostly mothers on the prowl was shocking & a lot of fun to watch, once I got the backpacks, of course.
Very well narrated which added to the atmosphere. I'm definitely up for another at some point.
July 8, 2016
I really, really liked this sequel! I liked the first book in this series but I thought this one was incredible. I felt like this one really drove home the bookish element to this series that the first one only touched on. Some of my favorite parts about this book was the book jumping, the conversations in the footnotes, all the bootstrap paradoxes, and this books funny self awareness. In the last book we got a glimpse of Thursdays power to jump into the events of any book, but it wasn't the main plot line. In this book we really get to see how it all worked and I loved the imagery of a library that contains every book ever written as well as every idea for a book. I would love to just go hang out there for a while. I really liked the way the characters developed in this book. Last book I found the characters to be interesting but they didn't really grab me and I was way more interested in the alternate world the author created and not so much the characters. In this sequel I loved all the characters just as much as I loved the world building. I also enjoyed the mystery of this book a little more than the last one and I like seeing the Goliath Corporation take more of a front seat as the villain of these stories. Speaking of Goliath, my book had a little approval rating at the front of the book from Goliath which I thought was really cute and I love when books have those sort of things in them. I also loved how there were parts of this book that tied it to the titles of the previous books and to the sequels. And on top of that any book is made better in my mind with quotes at the beginnings of chapters. I loved this book a lot and to be honest I was a little surprised at that because the first one to me was good but not great. This book definitely convinced me to pick up the next book in this serious and I would enchorage anyone who read the the first book and liked the concept but thought some of the delivery was only meh, to definitely try this one because I think this one is a great sequel and a great improvement over the first one and I hope I like the next detective Next book as much as I liked this one!
January 23, 2016
‘Bad boy!’ she added in a scolding tone. The Tasmanian tiger looked crestfallen, sat on its blanket by the Aga and stared down at its paws. ‘Rescue Thylacine,’ explained my mother. ‘Used to be a lab animal. He smoked forty a day until his escape. It’s costing me a fortune in nicotine patches. Isn’t it, DH-82?’
This is such a clever book and there ere are so many quotable passages, but the problem is that may favourite parts contain spoilers of either this book or of pretty much any classic work of literature worth reading.
I really admire the level of detail and research that Fforde put into this book, but I didn't think it lived up to the enjoyment of the first book, The Eyre Affair, tho. Maybe the novelty of Thursday's world has worn off a bit already, maybe the incessant puns and jokes were just a bit too much.
However, Thursday is still one of the best protagonists out there - kickass and kind.
The only real problem I have with this book is that it was so obviously written with the idea to continue the story in book #3 and therefore doesn't even attempt to be a standalone story - which makes me feel somewhat cheated and tricked into having to get the next book to find out what happened to my favourite characters.
I NEED TO KNOW THAT THE EGG IS OK!
Seriously, not cool, Mr. Fforde. But I guess, now I know how Scott's or Dickens' readers must have felt when they had to wait for the next installments of their stories.
And, yeah, I obviously am still in denial that Harry Potter worked the same way - except that I wanted to read the other books for their own sake, not to find out what happened to one particular character.
Ugh.
(Changed my mind about the rating and going to go with 3*, not 3.5*.)
This is such a clever book and there ere are so many quotable passages, but the problem is that may favourite parts contain spoilers of either this book or of pretty much any classic work of literature worth reading.
I really admire the level of detail and research that Fforde put into this book, but I didn't think it lived up to the enjoyment of the first book, The Eyre Affair, tho. Maybe the novelty of Thursday's world has worn off a bit already, maybe the incessant puns and jokes were just a bit too much.
However, Thursday is still one of the best protagonists out there - kickass and kind.
The only real problem I have with this book is that it was so obviously written with the idea to continue the story in book #3 and therefore doesn't even attempt to be a standalone story - which makes me feel somewhat cheated and tricked into having to get the next book to find out what happened to my favourite characters.
I NEED TO KNOW THAT THE EGG IS OK!
Seriously, not cool, Mr. Fforde. But I guess, now I know how Scott's or Dickens' readers must have felt when they had to wait for the next installments of their stories.
And, yeah, I obviously am still in denial that Harry Potter worked the same way - except that I wanted to read the other books for their own sake, not to find out what happened to one particular character.
Ugh.
(Changed my mind about the rating and going to go with 3*, not 3.5*.)
September 16, 2020
September, 2020:
I listened to the audio of this book to refresh my memory before continuing with the series.
This is still a story that is a lot of fun to read. There are so many clever & interesting oddities in Thursday's world. It's fresh and very entertaining.
I enjoyed this story more than the first book (which I liked). I think it's because I got to know the characters more, they became more real. Their world was more familiar and the story was touching.
I look forward to continuing with Thursday's story (I would still like to have a Dodo).
Jan, 2012:
A helluva lot of fun. I didn’t mean to read this book right now. Having been rather lukewarm about the first book in this series, I wasn’t sure whether to continue but some have said the series gets better. I thought I'd scan the first few pages and decide what to do.
Then, like Thursday Next, I fell into this book. It was clever, delightful; entertaining with lots of plot twists and turns, including an end-of-the-world scenario.
Miss Havisham is interesting. She’s assertive, in charge, smart and resourceful. I wonder what Dickens would think of Fforde's rendition of his stern, revengeful character.
I’m looking forward to the rest of this series now. Fforde has an amazing imagination.
I also want a Dodo. Plock-Plock.
I listened to the audio of this book to refresh my memory before continuing with the series.
This is still a story that is a lot of fun to read. There are so many clever & interesting oddities in Thursday's world. It's fresh and very entertaining.
I enjoyed this story more than the first book (which I liked). I think it's because I got to know the characters more, they became more real. Their world was more familiar and the story was touching.
I look forward to continuing with Thursday's story (I would still like to have a Dodo).
Jan, 2012:
A helluva lot of fun. I didn’t mean to read this book right now. Having been rather lukewarm about the first book in this series, I wasn’t sure whether to continue but some have said the series gets better. I thought I'd scan the first few pages and decide what to do.
Then, like Thursday Next, I fell into this book. It was clever, delightful; entertaining with lots of plot twists and turns, including an end-of-the-world scenario.
Miss Havisham is interesting. She’s assertive, in charge, smart and resourceful. I wonder what Dickens would think of Fforde's rendition of his stern, revengeful character.
I’m looking forward to the rest of this series now. Fforde has an amazing imagination.
I also want a Dodo. Plock-Plock.
May 5, 2008
Though I'm not generally a big fan of book series, the Thursday Next books are really growing on me. This second book picks up shortly after The Eyre Affair ended and follows Thursday as she again tangles with Goliath, tries to figure out why she is experiencing life-threatening coincidences, and begins to learn more about the fine art of book-jumping.
Though character development does not seem to be Fforde's priority and the bad guys in particular a little too thinly drawn, the underlying premise of this book was so interesting to me I was able to overlook the occasional clichéd moment. As someone who has always gotten easily lost in books, I really love the idea of being able to literally enter books and explore the world behind the story on the page. Fforde has created an endlessly interesting world of possibilities with his oddball alternate reality, and I am most curious to see where he will take it next.
Though character development does not seem to be Fforde's priority and the bad guys in particular a little too thinly drawn, the underlying premise of this book was so interesting to me I was able to overlook the occasional clichéd moment. As someone who has always gotten easily lost in books, I really love the idea of being able to literally enter books and explore the world behind the story on the page. Fforde has created an endlessly interesting world of possibilities with his oddball alternate reality, and I am most curious to see where he will take it next.
May 16, 2021
I seem to have really hit my stride with this second book (and I say “I”, not the author, because I don’t think there was really any style changes between book 1 & book 2 that would account for me liking it better). Almost like the first book was a wading pool that I dipped my toes into before deciding to jump right into the big pool. I’m appreciating the absolutely unique concept a lot more, and definitely smirking or even outright laughing a lot more at the absolutely ridiculous humour. I’m glad I decided to stick it out with the series, and can’t wait to see where it takes me next.
March 12, 2019
Much fun. Very puns. Wow.
March 11, 2026
What did I just read...no really what.
Written in 2002 but set in a parallel dimension in the 1980s, Lost in a Good Book takes you on an adventure through an alternate reality where:
No matter what is going on this book was fun. It was funny. It was all over the map and crazy in so many ways.
My favorite part though was learning about the society of book characters working for Jurisfiction. A whole word inside books of characters that keep those worlds running. Miss Havisham becomes Thursday's mentor and helps her learn about the workings of the world, the dangers and how to travel within it.
Oh and Thursday needs to help her dad save the world, set to end next week. And then there is also the matter of her husband being eradicated to force her to work for one of the evil corporations who are desperate to be able to use Thursday's ability to jump in and out of books.
What a crazy ride full of wit and wonder!
Written in 2002 but set in a parallel dimension in the 1980s, Lost in a Good Book takes you on an adventure through an alternate reality where:
- Dodo's (and other extinct creatures) are cloned for pets.
- Special Ops has 30 (or something) different divisions for anything from illegal horticulture to vampire slayers, to the Chromos guard and everything in between.
- Corporations sponsor not only TV but the budgets for some of the civil works so you may have to wear their logo at your everyday job.
- Normal rules of reality and entropy can just stop working at random times making a whole bunch of coincidences just line up.
- Some people can step into written works...and some fictional characters can step out of them.“I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!”
- The names of the characters are hilarious and witty.
- And your dad could be considered an enemy of the state, on the run from the Chrono Guard, time traveling trying to set things right and likely to pop in anytime for a few minutes to ask if you remember Winston Churchill.“Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travelers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.”
No matter what is going on this book was fun. It was funny. It was all over the map and crazy in so many ways.
My favorite part though was learning about the society of book characters working for Jurisfiction. A whole word inside books of characters that keep those worlds running. Miss Havisham becomes Thursday's mentor and helps her learn about the workings of the world, the dangers and how to travel within it.
Oh and Thursday needs to help her dad save the world, set to end next week. And then there is also the matter of her husband being eradicated to force her to work for one of the evil corporations who are desperate to be able to use Thursday's ability to jump in and out of books.
What a crazy ride full of wit and wonder!
July 2, 2017
Thursday Next must prevent Armageddon from happening next Thursday. This second episode of the saga of Thursday Next is filled with wordplay, bookjumping and irony.
It is very cleverly written and I found myself chuckling often at the situations that were described by Fforde and the definitions of terms often presented before each chapter.
This exchange between Landon and Thursday is one of the best in the book:
'"Goodbye, Thursday," muttered Landon, looking at the ham.
"Are you going somewhere?" I replied, unsure of what he meant.
"Me? No. Why?"
"You just said 'Goodbye.'"
"No," he laughed, "I was commenting on the ham. It's a good buy."
"oh."
He cut me a slice and put it with the cheese in a sandwich, then made one for himself. There was a distant trumpet of a mammoth as it made heavy weather of the escarpment and I took a bite.
"It's farewell and so long, Thursday."
"Are you doing this on purpose?"
"Doing what? Isn't that Major Tony Fairwelle and your old school chum Sue Long over there?"
I turned to where Landen was pointing. It was Tony and Sue,m and they waved cheerily before walking across to say hello.
"Goodness!" said Tony when they had seated themselves. "Looks like the regimental get-together is early this year! Remember Sara Nara, who lost an ear at Bilohirsk? I just met her in the car park; quite a coincidence.'
And there is much more to find in the pages of this book. I can't help imagining Thursday looking much like Agent 99 from Get Smart. Anyone else?
It is very cleverly written and I found myself chuckling often at the situations that were described by Fforde and the definitions of terms often presented before each chapter.
This exchange between Landon and Thursday is one of the best in the book:
'"Goodbye, Thursday," muttered Landon, looking at the ham.
"Are you going somewhere?" I replied, unsure of what he meant.
"Me? No. Why?"
"You just said 'Goodbye.'"
"No," he laughed, "I was commenting on the ham. It's a good buy."
"oh."
He cut me a slice and put it with the cheese in a sandwich, then made one for himself. There was a distant trumpet of a mammoth as it made heavy weather of the escarpment and I took a bite.
"It's farewell and so long, Thursday."
"Are you doing this on purpose?"
"Doing what? Isn't that Major Tony Fairwelle and your old school chum Sue Long over there?"
I turned to where Landen was pointing. It was Tony and Sue,m and they waved cheerily before walking across to say hello.
"Goodness!" said Tony when they had seated themselves. "Looks like the regimental get-together is early this year! Remember Sara Nara, who lost an ear at Bilohirsk? I just met her in the car park; quite a coincidence.'
And there is much more to find in the pages of this book. I can't help imagining Thursday looking much like Agent 99 from Get Smart. Anyone else?
May 11, 2011
Super fun for book geeks like me. Even if I am unfamiliar with some of the books and characters mentioned here, as in the first Thursday Next book, I had no problem laughing out loud on occassion and following the plot. Having read this after Christopher Moore's "You Suck!" it is interesting to note the different approaches to creating humorous situations. Moore relies rather heavily on teenage angst and sex jokes while Fforde borrows from the English tradition of word play, absurdism (is this even a word?) in the manner of Lewis Carroll and Eugene Ionesco, plus a healthy dose of straight slapstick.
One small peeve about this book is in the rather thin plot. We have here something in the manner of an episodic novel, with a string of loosely connected set pieces and an overall arch that doesn't advance much and is left to be resolved in a future book.
But all is forgiven in the sheer exuberance of wrecking havoc on timeline continuity and of playing loose with established literary characters. So if you are interested in finding about tensionolists, entroscopes, bloopholes, mnemonomorphs, oozemosis and so on ... this is the place to come to.
to give an exampleof the Next style:
"Time is the glue of the cosmos, Thursday, and it has to be eased apart ? try to force events and they end up whacking you on the frontal lobes like a cabbage from six paces."
One small peeve about this book is in the rather thin plot. We have here something in the manner of an episodic novel, with a string of loosely connected set pieces and an overall arch that doesn't advance much and is left to be resolved in a future book.
But all is forgiven in the sheer exuberance of wrecking havoc on timeline continuity and of playing loose with established literary characters. So if you are interested in finding about tensionolists, entroscopes, bloopholes, mnemonomorphs, oozemosis and so on ... this is the place to come to.
to give an exampleof the Next style:
"Time is the glue of the cosmos, Thursday, and it has to be eased apart ? try to force events and they end up whacking you on the frontal lobes like a cabbage from six paces."
May 5, 2008
While I didn’t feel quite the same extreme sense of glee about the final parts of the book as I did with the end the first book in the series (The Eyre Affair), the events toward the end of the book were, once again, exceedingly clever. And: I think that I enjoyed this book even more than the first one, which is saying a lot. I’m also thrilled because several people have told me that the next/third book in the series is their favorite so far; I believe that there are 5 now. I’m therefore very eager to read the next book: The Well of Lost Plots.
I’m finding that I am enjoying some books’ characters more in Fforde’s books than in their original books.
Fforde is brilliant and these books are so much fun to read.
I’m been strongly recommending this series to several friends. They might not be for everyone, but I’m so delighted that I found them, thanks to Goodreads. The books should be read in order, in my opinion; of course, I do think that about all series.
I’m finding that I am enjoying some books’ characters more in Fforde’s books than in their original books.
Fforde is brilliant and these books are so much fun to read.
I’m been strongly recommending this series to several friends. They might not be for everyone, but I’m so delighted that I found them, thanks to Goodreads. The books should be read in order, in my opinion; of course, I do think that about all series.
June 24, 2010
3.0 to 3.5 stars. Not quite as enjoyable as Fforde's other novels (my favorite being The Big Over Easy) but still a good read. I really like the "world" of Thursday next and will certainly visit it again by reading the next book in the series.
December 28, 2008
Sequel to The Eyre Affair. Literary Detective Thursday Next is dealing with her sudden fame, pregnancy, the eradication of her husband from the timeline in order to force her to work for megacorp Goliath by going into books, the thing where someone is trying to kill her, her training as a Jurisfiction (hee) agent to ensure the integrity of books, and the impending end of the world.
Weird, fun, metafictional. Thursday slides in and out of books and her brand of reality, and there are some great little touches like communication via textual footnotes between people in fiction and people in reality. Mostly, these books are a big conglomeration of “hey, isn’t this neat?” saved by the fact that actually, yes, most of the things really are pretty freaking neat (though I say again, WTF with the random vampire subplot?).
I do want to say, though, that these books are a perfect exemplar of the ways our IP and copyright systems are broken. Thursday does her Jurisfiction apprenticeship with Miss Havisham, and every other “real” fictional character she interacts with is in the public domain. I should also point out that these characters are explicitly extra-textual, with lives and personas outside the pages of the books they hail from – Fforde’s Miss Havisham drives motorboats, enjoys high-speed chases, and wears running shoes. But Fforde’s publisher would never permit him to work in a character who isn’t in the public domain, as it would be economically prohibitive even just to use a well-known name, irregardless of the personality attached. Fforde, being no fool, likely knows better than to even try. And if that isn’t a chilling effect, I don’t know what is.
Weird, fun, metafictional. Thursday slides in and out of books and her brand of reality, and there are some great little touches like communication via textual footnotes between people in fiction and people in reality. Mostly, these books are a big conglomeration of “hey, isn’t this neat?” saved by the fact that actually, yes, most of the things really are pretty freaking neat (though I say again, WTF with the random vampire subplot?).
I do want to say, though, that these books are a perfect exemplar of the ways our IP and copyright systems are broken. Thursday does her Jurisfiction apprenticeship with Miss Havisham, and every other “real” fictional character she interacts with is in the public domain. I should also point out that these characters are explicitly extra-textual, with lives and personas outside the pages of the books they hail from – Fforde’s Miss Havisham drives motorboats, enjoys high-speed chases, and wears running shoes. But Fforde’s publisher would never permit him to work in a character who isn’t in the public domain, as it would be economically prohibitive even just to use a well-known name, irregardless of the personality attached. Fforde, being no fool, likely knows better than to even try. And if that isn’t a chilling effect, I don’t know what is.
July 25, 2020
good sequel. Got me interested into reading the series again. A little bit odd but endearing.
October 23, 2009
Lost in a Good Book - what a title. Would I have been in such a situation! Sadly, I was not, and I really hated this book to begin with. Half a star rating at best. In fact, the only reason I finished it was so that I could give it a bad review. By the end, I was able to stomach it, which isn't much for praise.
I haven't much patience with books that try to be clever, and this book is dripping with unsupportable pretentiousness. For a long time, I thought the main character was a man, for this male author does not seem to have the ability to present a female character in a believable form. The world she inhabits is full of quirky characters who grated on me. The book is chock full of literary jokes and giggles, but again, the clever format in which they were presented took all the fun out of it. It was more like a small child saying, "See, look, I read books! I know plots! I know character names! Aren't I smart and well read??" A coworker gave me books two through four of this series, and I would really like to return them by throwing them at his head and asking how he can stand to read such garbage.
I haven't much patience with books that try to be clever, and this book is dripping with unsupportable pretentiousness. For a long time, I thought the main character was a man, for this male author does not seem to have the ability to present a female character in a believable form. The world she inhabits is full of quirky characters who grated on me. The book is chock full of literary jokes and giggles, but again, the clever format in which they were presented took all the fun out of it. It was more like a small child saying, "See, look, I read books! I know plots! I know character names! Aren't I smart and well read??" A coworker gave me books two through four of this series, and I would really like to return them by throwing them at his head and asking how he can stand to read such garbage.
October 7, 2016
Dopo "Il caso Jane Eyre", che ho adorato tantissimo, non pensavo che Jasper FForde avrebbe potuto sorprendermi ancora.. E invece c'è riuscito alla grande con questo secondo volume che si dimostra parimenti intelligente, raffinato, irriverente e soprattutto geniale!
E' un libro che contiene TANTE cose, ci sono mille piani di lettura e gli elementi più disparati che possono accontentare qualsiasi lettore: garantito, con Jasper Fforde e la sua Thursday non avrete modo di annoiarvi!
La cosa più meravigliosa però è come i libri la facciano da assoluti padroni all'interno della storia: autori, libri pubblicati, libri ritrovati, libri che non hanno mai visto la luce del sole, personaggi che si muovono a loro piacere all'interno del loro libro e negli altri, agenzie letterarie, espedienti letterari.. STUPENDO. Mi ha ricordato a volte "La città dei libri sognanti" di Moers, ma d'altronde tanta genialità mica si trova ovunque! :D
Mi è presa una gran voglia di scoprire e approfondire tutto il marasma di autori e libri che Fforde, dando prova di grande cultura in modi anche spesso sottili (E chissà quante chicche nascoste mi sono persa!!), ha tirato in ballo nella sua storia.. *_*
E' un libro che contiene TANTE cose, ci sono mille piani di lettura e gli elementi più disparati che possono accontentare qualsiasi lettore: garantito, con Jasper Fforde e la sua Thursday non avrete modo di annoiarvi!
La cosa più meravigliosa però è come i libri la facciano da assoluti padroni all'interno della storia: autori, libri pubblicati, libri ritrovati, libri che non hanno mai visto la luce del sole, personaggi che si muovono a loro piacere all'interno del loro libro e negli altri, agenzie letterarie, espedienti letterari.. STUPENDO. Mi ha ricordato a volte "La città dei libri sognanti" di Moers, ma d'altronde tanta genialità mica si trova ovunque! :D
Mi è presa una gran voglia di scoprire e approfondire tutto il marasma di autori e libri che Fforde, dando prova di grande cultura in modi anche spesso sottili (E chissà quante chicche nascoste mi sono persa!!), ha tirato in ballo nella sua storia.. *_*
February 23, 2008
A small disappointment after "The Eyre Affair". The hook or gimmick, that of an alternative reality where literature has a huge impact on humans' lives, apparently only holds up for one novel. I thought the first book was cute, innovative, and funny. Here the jokes became worn, the hook repetetive, and the characters just boxy and one-noted.
The plot, which apparently is going to go on a la Harry Potter, involves Thursday trying to rescue her loved ones and herself. Just not very good, I'm afraid; I won't be reading another of these. And that's really too bad, because I was decieved by the first one's innovation into thinking it was actually a pretty good book. There are some great puns in the series, though.
The plot, which apparently is going to go on a la Harry Potter, involves Thursday trying to rescue her loved ones and herself. Just not very good, I'm afraid; I won't be reading another of these. And that's really too bad, because I was decieved by the first one's innovation into thinking it was actually a pretty good book. There are some great puns in the series, though.
January 5, 2021
I'm sorry, I'm going to spoil this by telling you the only bit I thought was worth laughing at out loud. The cat in Alice in Wonderland finds that the area in which he lives is being rezoned. He will no longer be called the Cheshire cat.
Many years later:
PS: I see in reviewing #1, I said I wouldn't read any more....okay, I gave in, but I admit it was wrong to do so.
Many years later:
PS: I see in reviewing #1, I said I wouldn't read any more....okay, I gave in, but I admit it was wrong to do so.
April 15, 2017
Another excellent literary romp, I wish I could say yes as many times as Thursday when asked if I've read xxx. I also wish I could book hop. And be Miss Haversham's trainee. And go to THE library. And have a dodo. Plock plock! Much like reading Pratchett, you spend most of the time terribly amused which is no bad thing.
May 1, 2021
I love the Unitary Authority of Warrington Cat. :D
April 2, 2024
Po Thursday nuotykių „Džeinės Eir“ puslapiuose ją užklupo nepageidaujama šlovė – nuolatiniai interviu (kuriuose negali pasakyti nė žodžio tiesos, tuo ypatingai rūpinasi galingoji „Goliath“ korporacija), pasirodymai televizijoje ir pan. Bet visa tai užtemdo savi rūpesčiai – kažkas „ištrina“ Thursday vyrą, tad norėdama jį susigrąžinti, literatūrinė detektyvė turi ištraukti iš E. A. Poe „Varno“ ten įkalintą niekšelį. Bėda ta, kad kelionės į Poe knygas draudžiamos. Thursday įsitaiso stažuotoja pas mis Havisham iš Dickenso „Didžiųjų lūkesčių“. Slėpdama savo tikruosius tikslus ji mokosi Prozos Išteklių Operatyvininkės darbo. Nerimą kelia ir keistų, neįtikėtinų sutapimų virtinės, vis užgriūvančios mūsų heroję.
Kaip ir pirmoji knyga, taip ir ši – kupina literatūrinių aliuzijų ir žaidimų. Gal vos vos silpniau už pirmąją, o gal tiesiog kiek atbuko tas pirmasis „wow“ įspūdis. Bet pasakojimas nutraukiamas taip beveik pusiaukelėje – viena, pasaulio gelbėjimo nuo paslaptingos rausvos masės, arka uždaroma, tačiau reikalas su „ištrintu“ vyru lieka neišspręstas. Tad nori nenori, teks imti ir trečią knygą.
O šitai – vis dar keturi iš penkių.
Kaip ir pirmoji knyga, taip ir ši – kupina literatūrinių aliuzijų ir žaidimų. Gal vos vos silpniau už pirmąją, o gal tiesiog kiek atbuko tas pirmasis „wow“ įspūdis. Bet pasakojimas nutraukiamas taip beveik pusiaukelėje – viena, pasaulio gelbėjimo nuo paslaptingos rausvos masės, arka uždaroma, tačiau reikalas su „ištrintu“ vyru lieka neišspręstas. Tad nori nenori, teks imti ir trečią knygą.
O šitai – vis dar keturi iš penkių.
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