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Giving up. Everything that made the first book unique just seems labored and repetitive here. Pun-based metacommentary can only take you so far. After a while, it's all "Okay, you're clever... WE GET IT." It might've been easier to overlook if anything happened, but this takes a really long time to get going. My patience has been tested too much and in too many ways to want to continue.
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Story: 5 stars
Narrator: still not the biggest Emily Gray fan.
Regular annual re-read of the Thursday Next novels: always fun.
Narrator: still not the biggest Emily Gray fan.
Regular annual re-read of the Thursday Next novels: always fun.
Just finished today in the car. Not quite as good as the first in the series The Eyre Affair, but still a raucous, fun, witty adventure with great literary and historical references to keep you on your toes.
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I love how both the Nursery Crime and the Thursday Next series draw from each other. Every once in a while, a product is mentioned or a character who can be found in both of the series, which I think is amusing. Mary Mary was even at the end of this book.
I couldn't put this book down, and I loved it, but I gave it four stars just because it didn't wrap up all neat at the end. Of course, it's a series, but with the Nursery Crime series every book has so many twists and turns and I'm spending the ...more
I couldn't put this book down, and I loved it, but I gave it four stars just because it didn't wrap up all neat at the end. Of course, it's a series, but with the Nursery Crime series every book has so many twists and turns and I'm spending the ...more
it dragged in the middle but really picked up.
This is the second of the Tuesday Next series, taking up quickly after the first, The Eyre Affair. It is a good, funny, fast paced adventure with a lot of literary references throughout. Jasper Fforde is the Douglas Adams for the literati in each of us.
This makes MUCH more sense after reading The Eyre Affair.
A quick, fun read. Couldn't put it down! ...more
A quick, fun read. Couldn't put it down! ...more
Oct 17, 2007
Elizabeth
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Jul 26, 2009
Melissa
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it was amazing
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Aug 14, 2012
Rivkah
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Robin
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Katie
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