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by Jasper Fforde, Emily Gray
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BrokenTune
BrokenTune rated it 9 years ago
"I knocked at their door and, hearing no answer, walked in. When I was last working at SpecOps we rarely heard anything from the mildly eccentric members of the time-travelling elite, but when you work in the time business, you don’t waste it by nattering – it’s much too precious. My father always a...
Murder by Death
Murder by Death rated it 9 years ago
Thursday has left the Bookworld after 2 years and is transitioning back to the real world and not without a fair few hurdles. Goliath is aiming for classification as a religion, Kaine is one step away from ruling all of the UK as a dictator, Danish books are being rounded up and burned by order of ...
Arbie's Unoriginally Titled Book Blog
Volume 4 in the adventures of Thursday Next, Literary Detective, is much like its immediate predecessor in terms of strengths and weaknesses alike. There are the same issues with plotting, namely Deus ex Machina, lack of agency in events (specifically, very little seems to happen because of Thursd...
Joanne
Joanne rated it 11 years ago
These books are such a treat. This is the fourth in the series and just when you think the world could not possibly get wackier, they introduce things like the Superhoop, a championship croquet game where each team has lawyers who file complaints (during the game) to try to disqualify the other team...
kneubeck
kneubeck rated it 11 years ago
Thursday ist nach über 2 Jahren in der Bücherwelt in die Realität zurückgekehrt, zusammen mit ihrem Sohn Friday und Hamlet. Es steht wieder einiges an: Hamlet muss lernen sich zu entscheiden und versucht zu verstehen, warum seine Leser ihn nicht verstehen, Yorrick Kaine will Diktator auf Lebenszeit ...
Awogfli - Bookcroc
Awogfli - Bookcroc rated it 12 years ago
Dieser Band hat mir wieder außerordentlich gut gefallen. Der in sich konsistente Erzählstrang, nämlich die Anti-Nichtung des Ehemanns Landen und die damit einhergehenden witzigen Begleiterscheinungen inklusive wiederholter Rettung des gesamten Planeten, werden extrem lustig und rasant erzählt. An t...
karenf
karenf rated it 12 years ago
Let's see - you've got Hamlet running around in the real world and engaging in a affair with Lady Emma Hamilton, a croquet match in which the fate of the world hangs in the balance, a Minotaur tagged with "slapstick" so there are bananas, pianos, etc whenever he shows up, a sprinkling of Latin, Shak...
jalestro
jalestro rated it 13 years ago
This entire series is fantastic. After a bit of a slump in book 3, Fforde really stepped it up again in this one and was back at the quality level I expected after books 1 and 2. I'm looking forward to books 5 (First Among Sequels) & 6 (One of Our Thursdays Is Missing) as well as his other books T...
even with nougat, you can have a perfect moment
This was the best Thursday Next book yet. If you've read the first three, you don't really need to hear much more than that.Hamlet might be my favourite thing ever.And I teared up a little at the end I'M ONLY HUMAN.
The Book Magpie's Nest
The Book Magpie's Nest rated it 13 years ago
This was the best Thursday Next book yet. If you've read the first three, you don't really need to hear much more than that.Hamlet might be my favourite thing ever.And I teared up a little at the end I'M ONLY HUMAN.
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