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Kyle
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Remembering back to when I first read this book, not having yet read the original Jane Eyre, or knowing much about the authorship question, spacetime dynamics, Wales or even who Sherlock Holmes' brother is, it was still an exciting read. Now that I am somewhat more familiar with all of the above, I can appreciate the amount of planning that went into the creation of the first novel Douglas Adams would enjoy.
— Mar 25, 2013 10:33PM
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Kyle
is on page 219 of 400
Two curiously incongruent influences which Fforde includes here are Shakespeare and Fleming. As much as he toys with the authorship possibility as national craze, there is a sense that the character truly have a life independent of the author. So it is with Christopher Sly. James Bond, on the other hand, appears nowhere, but the spirit of the spy series: flashy cars and guns right down to silly names, is omnipresent.
— Mar 22, 2013 11:57PM
Kyle
is on page 151 of 400
Thursday's return to Swindon and acquainting herself with characters new, old and related provides a bevy of backstory, and has lots to do with the Crimean War. As luck would have it, I just started reading Tolstoy's Cossacks which has, in the Penguin Classic edition, maps of the war-torn peninsula, currently (as in 1985) occupied by England - even mention of German occupation of Swindon during a second war?
— Mar 21, 2013 04:00PM
Kyle
is on page 77 of 400
Really impressed, on the second time around, how much of everything related to Thursday Next has been included in the first seven chapters: an enigmatically ranked SpecOp force, alternate eventlines for world wars, a Japanese tourist inspiring uncle Mycroft and even mention of a quarkbeast! I heard that Fforde had many different versions of the story, and other stories it seems, long before publishers gave him a yes.
— Mar 20, 2013 06:19PM
