First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5)

by Jasper Fforde

Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so. When we read of the dying rays of the setting sun or the boom and swish of the incoming tide, we should reserve as much praise for ourselves as for the author. After all, the reader is doing all the work – the writer may have died long ago.

For a start, he insisted that democracy, while a good idea for a good idea, was potentially vulnerable to predation by the greedy, egotistical and insane,

The two discount electrical shops actually were competitors, but still spookily managed to sell the same goods at the same price, although ‘sell’ in this context actually meant offering ‘brief custodianship between outlet and landfill’.