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The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)

Jasper Fforde

Why we're reading this: #82 on NPR's Top 100 SF/F novels of all time (2011 poll) http://www.npr.org/2011/08/11/1390858...
#9 on Lo…more
[close] #82 on NPR's Top 100 SF/F novels of all time (2011 poll) http://www.npr.org/2011/08/11/1390858...
#9 on Locus Magazines Best Fantasy novels of the 21th century http://www.locusmag.com/2012/AllCentu...

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Oct 16, 2012 Brenda Clough rated it it was amazing

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.

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Apr 17, 2022 Nina marked it as did-not-finish

Had to DNF around 1/3 of the way in. The author seems to be aiming at a light-hearted quirky Douglas Adams knock-off, but I thought it was a hot mess. I can see why others like it, but it wasn’t working for me.

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May 30, 2018 Stuart McMillan rated it it was ok · review of another edition

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

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