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The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)

Jasper Fforde

Start date: January 1, 2011

Finish date: February 28, 2011

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Jan 19, 2010 Marly rated it it was ok

Shelves: 2010-reading-journal

I thought the idea for this book was excellent yet I don't feel the writer was able to pull it off. I really wanted to like it and I kept reading hoping for the plot to interest me more. It was a little scattered, not a flowing story line that was easy to follow. It felt like it was trying to be too literary and it got a little silly. I actually rolled my eyes a few times. I gave it 2 stars.
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Jan 25, 2010 Garlan ✌ rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2010-reads, defies-strict-adherence-to-a-given, books-i-own

Wow! What a wild ride! I thoroughly enjoyed this highly imaginative, alternate history, witty, creative novel about a Special Operative in literary detection, Thursday Next, as she unravels the mystery of kidnapped characters from literary works. The villains are truly villainous (a-la Snidely Whiplash of comic fame), and the heroes are all "good guys". There are shades of Graham Chapman's Brazil and The Advenures of Baron Munchausen, as well as Dougals Adams and Thomas Pynchon. Throw in a scene ...more

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Apr 13, 2010 Carly Svamvour rated it really liked it

I worked my way through this book slowly. It sat by my beside - mostly on the floor, along with other texts 'in-the-process-of-being-read'.

It was ridiculous story, but one I couldn't stop reading. I'd go through 4 or 5 pages of 'large print', then put it down thinking - oh, I gotta' take that back to the library; that's too ridiculous.

But I couldn't turn my back on it. Especially once the story progressed to Thursday actually being with Jane Eyre's characters. And I had to see the good guys tak ...more

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Oct 12, 2009 Lisa Hickman rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: busy-as-a-bee-books, god-bless-goodwill, bookmarks-2002, alternate-history

Imagine a world where characters can leap out of the pages of books and enter the real world, and people can enter the world of a book and influence its outcome. This is the premise of The Eyre Affair, where an alternate universe for literature exists. Thursday Next resides in this alternative universe, and leads an interesting life as a special operations agent that investigates literary crimes. This book was highly imaginative, especially some of Thursday's uncles inventions. It was also fun t ...more

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Jan 23, 2008 Jen rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: five-star-reads

What a creative line of storytelling.

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January 2020 read

It’s been long enough since I read this the first time that I didn’t remember all the plot lines. This was a great book for air travel that I just engaged in; quick, silly, don’t have to get overly bogged down. I do feel like the first 3/4 dragged more than I recalled. But I’m very glad to have re-read and may very well get into the next in the series as well.

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Dec 19, 2010 Karli rated it liked it

Listened to this one - the narrator was good, but I did get the impression I would have enjoyed it more as a print book. The ending was pretty fabulous!

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