The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next, #3) in Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge

Nov 14, 2007 Joanna rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy-sci-fi, audiobooks, 2013-read, rws-2013-fall

I enjoyed listening to this 3rd installment in the Thursday Next series. The narrator for the audiobook version does a nice job of creating different voices for different characters, though I continue to find the voice for "the cat formerly known as Cheshire" rather annoying.

Overall, this installment does a lot of world building and not a lot of plot development. That said, I enjoy the cleverness and literary references even if there is a tinge of self-satisfied look-how-clever-I-am to the whole ...more

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Dec 18, 2009 Julia rated it really liked it

Not quite as brilliant as the first two in the series, but still better than 99.87% of what is out there.

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Jan 18, 2009 Nicole rated it liked it

Still a really fun fantasy series, but it starts to loose something by book three.

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Jan 23, 2008 Debbie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: humor, sciencefiction, mystery

Book three in the Thursday Next series.

To keep herself and her unborn baby safe, Thursday joins the Character Exchange Program and takes the place of a minor character in an unpublished novel in the Well of Lost Plots. Even in this safe haven, Thursday still battles grammasites and the Minotaur, while also finding time to sit in on a counseling session with the characters from Wuthering Heights. Priceless.

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Feb 22, 2008 Cindy rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I love Jasper Fforde. I adore Thursday Next. The mystery, the time travel, the alternate reality, the humor, the puns!!!! Plus, who doesn't love a pet dodo? ...more

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