I have no idea why this one has been sitting on my shelves unread for so long as well. I'm only one third in, but I'm hooked and delighted already. I really, really liked the Thursday Next series, but it seems to me that this one is even better (this might be due to the fact that I haven't read anyt...
Amazon calls this "probably Fforde's weakest novel" - a statement I must say I highly disagree with. It's much better than [book:Lost in a Good Book] and almost on par with [book:The Eyre Affair] - something which I thought absolutely impossible.I love how Fforde dares to use the media to get his po...
The first chapter was a bit of a barrier to this book. I've read the 4 Thursday Next books (tho not recently) so was a bit worried that fforde had lost his touch. Not to worry. After the slow start, 'normal' transmission resumed, and I was soon happily sniggering away at the many sly jokes he'd effo...
I'm a big fan of Jasper Fforde's series about Thursday Next, Literary Detective, and have had the two installments (thus far) in his "Nursery Crimes" series waiting on one of my TBR shelves for awhile. They're fairly quick, clever, and amusing reads, full of outlandish situations and characters, plu...
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