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Superb. One of the very rare fantasy novels that simply MUST be read by all fans of Charlotte Bronte. And what a fun alternate England it is, where literature is taken as passionately as football! The later volumes become kind of confusing, but this first one is stellar.
Some fun thinking here, but the execution just grated.
I wanted to like this. Jasper Fforde has been on my list of UK authors to read for a while, but there was always something else on the pile. The metafictional universe that Thursday Next inhabits is a whacky at-right-angles world that is nearly, but not quite the same one that we live in. The Crimean war is still raging and the UK appears to have broken into constituent nations for some reason (I'm not quite sure what's happened to Scotland, ...more
I wanted to like this. Jasper Fforde has been on my list of UK authors to read for a while, but there was always something else on the pile. The metafictional universe that Thursday Next inhabits is a whacky at-right-angles world that is nearly, but not quite the same one that we live in. The Crimean war is still raging and the UK appears to have broken into constituent nations for some reason (I'm not quite sure what's happened to Scotland, ...more
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