Monkey's Reading Grove: The Eyre Affair
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The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Welcome to a surreal version of Great Britain, circa 1985, where time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem, militant Baconians heckle performances of Hamlet, and forging Byronic verse is a punishable offense. All this is business as usual for Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative in literary detection, until someone begins kidnapping characters from works of literature. When Jane Eyre is plucked from the pages of Brontë's novel, Thursday must track down the villain and enter the novel herself to avert a heinous act of literary homicide.
Other books by Fforde: Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Plots, Something Rotten, First Among Sequels (all Thursday Next books), The Big Over Easy, The Fourth Bear
Initial Reaction: This is apparently Fforde's first ever novel (printed in 2001) and I really have no expectations going in. It has dodos in it, so I'm already amused.
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Welcome to a surreal version of Great Britain, circa 1985, where time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem, militant Baconians heckle performances of Hamlet, and forging Byronic verse is a punishable offense. All this is business as usual for Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative in literary detection, until someone begins kidnapping characters from works of literature. When Jane Eyre is plucked from the pages of Brontë's novel, Thursday must track down the villain and enter the novel herself to avert a heinous act of literary homicide.
Other books by Fforde: Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Plots, Something Rotten, First Among Sequels (all Thursday Next books), The Big Over Easy, The Fourth Bear
Initial Reaction: This is apparently Fforde's first ever novel (printed in 2001) and I really have no expectations going in. It has dodos in it, so I'm already amused.
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Date: 2009-02-12 03:28 pm (UTC)I like the Thursday Next ones a little more than the Nursery Crimes series but they're both great sets of books. I was so disappointed Fforde didn't release a new one this past summer!