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3.5 Stars
Jasper Fforde has created a fast and quirky read in The Eyre Affair. It is humorous. It is a mystery. It is fantasy. It requires the reader to suspend disbelief. The plot is unusual and well executed. Bibliophiles will love this series. But I digress.
It is 1985 in an alternate Great Britain. It is almost a police state thanks to the Goliath Corporation. Time travel is the norm as is cloning of resurrected species. The Crimean War is still being fought after 132 years. Authors are meg ...more
Jasper Fforde has created a fast and quirky read in The Eyre Affair. It is humorous. It is a mystery. It is fantasy. It requires the reader to suspend disbelief. The plot is unusual and well executed. Bibliophiles will love this series. But I digress.
It is 1985 in an alternate Great Britain. It is almost a police state thanks to the Goliath Corporation. Time travel is the norm as is cloning of resurrected species. The Crimean War is still being fought after 132 years. Authors are meg ...more
This book was so delightfully different from any other books I've read. It's got time-travel and secret government departments and tons of literary references. The main Jane Eyre plot doesn't get going until more than halfway but if you love that book like I do, the wait is worth it. I will definitely be continuing with the series.
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#1 in the Thursday Next fantasy series
I thought I would like this book more than I did. I remember reading it as a young adult and finding it hilarious. There was a lot to like about it, but the controversy and arguments of the society in the book seemed too reminiscent of today's politics and left me with a negative feeling. Thursday is a good hero, and I admired her conviction and her knowledge. She has a strong sense of duty about literature (as a SpecOps Literatec) and humanity (as a result ...more
I thought I would like this book more than I did. I remember reading it as a young adult and finding it hilarious. There was a lot to like about it, but the controversy and arguments of the society in the book seemed too reminiscent of today's politics and left me with a negative feeling. Thursday is a good hero, and I admired her conviction and her knowledge. She has a strong sense of duty about literature (as a SpecOps Literatec) and humanity (as a result ...more
Thursday Next
There was a lot going on here (some good, some bad) from time travel to being able to enter literary text.
Thursday is promoted to help with the capture of Acheron Hades because she is the only ones who knows what he looks like. He has managed to evade the law for a while using some unique abilities that he has.
He leads her and her comrades on a merry chase and manages to outsmart them to the end.
The pacing was up and down. There were moments of excitement, such as the action sequ ...more
There was a lot going on here (some good, some bad) from time travel to being able to enter literary text.
Thursday is promoted to help with the capture of Acheron Hades because she is the only ones who knows what he looks like. He has managed to evade the law for a while using some unique abilities that he has.
He leads her and her comrades on a merry chase and manages to outsmart them to the end.
The pacing was up and down. There were moments of excitement, such as the action sequ ...more
Jasper Fforde has an elegant flow and use of English language and a brilliant imagination. The alternate world that he has created with the ‘Thursday Next’ series took me completely by surprise. It has been on my to be read shelf for over a year and it was only after I read a review by Christopher Moore that I decided that now is the time for me to read this story.
Jasper Fforde takes the reader on a literary journey through all the classics and provides a different view and spin with them. I ha ...more
Jasper Fforde takes the reader on a literary journey through all the classics and provides a different view and spin with them. I ha ...more
3.5 stars. Review to come
Dec 13, 2011
Camilla
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Feb 25, 2012
Sam
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Jun 13, 2012
ilovebakedgoods (Teresa)
marked it as to-read
Jul 22, 2012
April
marked it as to-read
Jun 05, 2013
Lizz (Beer, Books and Boos)
marked it as to-read
Jan 20, 2017
Gen
marked it as series-to-read
Dec 21, 2020
Jessica
marked it as dnf
Jun 05, 2023
Madge
marked it as to-read
Oct 04, 2023
Navah
marked it as to-read
