The Eyre Affair
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Add a SummaryThe first in the series of Thursday Next books. Here, we start with the basics, with Thursday working for a division of law enforcement that focuses exclusively on book related crimes. All goes relatively well, until the realms of fiction and reality cross-over in all together unexpected ways, leading to the random (of sorts) of the book Jane Eyre. Oh, and there's all sorts of other brilliantly dry British and literature related humour.
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Add a Quote"As the saying goes: If you want to get into SpecOps, act kinda weird. We don't tend to pussyfoot around."
"Plock"
"Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time."
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Add a CommentOne of 3 in the series. Do read or watch Jane Eyre first! Highly imaginative travel through reality and time, risking the change of classic novels. A "10" for originality.
A very good mix of science fiction, mystery and humor. Very much enjoyable!
Great fun to read! It has everything: time travel, vampires, werewolves, mystery, action, murder, romance, war, fantasy, genetic mutants, and just total madcap insanity. Doubly amusing for literature nerds like me.
Good book. Later seem to be better developed, but it is a great start and is very well written.
Thursday Next is a LitTec from SpecOps. She spends her days authenticating copies of old books. Sound dull? Try doing that in a world where followers of Bacon travel door to door like Mormons trying to convince you that Shakespeare was not the author of the great canon of plays. Then Jane Eyre is kidnapped out of her own book, and Thursday's old college lecturer, a man that she seems uniquely able to resist, is behind it. Soon she is swept up in an adventure that brings her back to her hometown and to the man she left behind. This is a smart, fast-moving, brilliant alternate history where literature and art reign supreme. Towns have interactive, long running productions of Shakespeare that make Rocky Horror look like amateur. hour. There are marvellous invention that allow worms to act like thesauruses and cars to travel through time. So worth the effort.
If you're not of the British persuasion and feel that some of the jokes are going over your head - annotations are available at: http://www.jasperfforde.com/reader/readerjon2.html
Surreal mystery/alternate history/fantasy series about books and people who vanish into them.
An altogether fantastic read for those of us who love books, and jokes about the classics.
Do you love literature? How about laughing and just plain enjoying yourself? Then it's high time you hop into an alternative 1985 with Thursday Next and start solving some literary crimes. This book is a unique gem, and an introduction to a series that only gets better and better with each book. This Comment is brought to you by the Toast Marketing Board in the interest of public safety and nutrition. Failure to eat the mandatory toast-eating requirements is an offence.* *If you found this statement to be enjoyable, then place a hold on this book immediately.
One of my favourites: silly, smart, hilarious, well-written. Skewers every literary cliche there is...yet is also a strong detective story. Fforde rocks!