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The beginning of my review for Lost in a Good Book works here as well. To wit, I said:
Me, reading this book: "I dunno. Is this too clever for its own good?"
Also me, reading: *delights in all the word play and literary references*
In conclusion, I am the target audience for this series, and I am okay with that.
My only complaint about this is that Thursday's real plot/caper doesn't start until well into the book (maybe a third of the way?), which is why I thought Fforde might have just been being c ...more
Me, reading this book: "I dunno. Is this too clever for its own good?"
Also me, reading: *delights in all the word play and literary references*
In conclusion, I am the target audience for this series, and I am okay with that.
My only complaint about this is that Thursday's real plot/caper doesn't start until well into the book (maybe a third of the way?), which is why I thought Fforde might have just been being c ...more
I think I enjoyed this book more than the second in the series, but still not as much as the first. What I loved about this book was Fforde's creation of the bookworld where Thursday has chosen to rest and hide from those in the real world who wish to arrest or kidnap her for various nefarious reasons. Fforde has quite an imagination, and he uses it well to recreate many of fiction's best-loved and not-so-loved characters. Some of my favorite moments: an anger management session with the charact
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I adore this book in the Thursday Next series, because it's a fascinating and imaginative look into how books are written. It's also got a glimpse of how the Nursery Crime series began. If that's really how Jack Spratt got his start, as trying to solve a murder from a boxing ring, and somehow it shifted to Humpty Dumpty, it was interesting to see how the thought process went. The plot twists weren't quite as "edge of your seat" as in the Nursery Crime series, but the book itself was still one of
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The third Thursday Next novel has plenty of clever ideas... but not much plot or character development. Fforde took a big risk when he decided to afflict his main character with a mindworm that unravels her memory -- she forgets her backstory, and the reader forgets to care.
There were some awful typos, like its vs. it's and breath vs. breathe. Bad enough in any published novel, but in one that includes cutesy little sub-plots about a misspelling virus and punctuation theft? Unacceptable!
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There were some awful typos, like its vs. it's and breath vs. breathe. Bad enough in any published novel, but in one that includes cutesy little sub-plots about a misspelling virus and punctuation theft? Unacceptable!
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I think I liked this one a little more than the second...though it was a little confusing with all of the time travel
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