Well, apparently none of the characters in this book have, and it's set in England. Okay, it is an alternate history, and you can pretty much work that out as soon as you discover that the Crimean War is still being fought between England and Russia, and Wales is a Socialist Republic and not a part ...
Entertaining and clever in many ways, but lacking focus. The actual premise I thought I would read about (Jane Eyre being kidnapped from her own story) doesn't happen before three quarters of the book, and a great deal of time is devoted to developing the world in which Thursday lives—which is good ...
"Somehow ‘Fucked up’ made it seem more believable; we all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice." This book was a recommendation that arose from a discussion about a non-fiction book about e...
I always intended to review these two books (I'll do them together, since it's series), but I had a feeling I hadn't done it yet and I was right.So, here goes.I love this series of books, even though I have only read the first two books so far. Hopefully, I'll soon be able to read more. This 'univer...
bookshelves: amusing Read in January, 2001 18.08.2015: I have an urge to re-read this series as it reflects today's world, what with the Cheese Wars and trouble in Crimea.
"Why is a raven like a writing desk?" "Because Poe wrote on both?" “The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through; the hole is frozen over by th...
I can still remember the first time I was introduced to The Eyre Affair. I was talking with a history professor I unfortunately didn't discover until my final year of school and could take only one semester with her. While talking with her about a special project for the class, I saw this book sitti...
Since I might be the last person to have read Fforde, I'll not bore everyone with a blow-by-blow review of The Eyre Affair. Just a quick summation of my thoughts. I found it difficult to get into it at the start. There's no info-dump and the world building is, in a way, non-existent. As the rea...
Awkwardness of some setting pieces of this book in conjunction with current events aside, "The Eyre Affair" is a cute, sometimes clever, but also personally frustrating and largely forgettable introduction to the Thursday Next series of books. I feel like a lot of this review could be copied and p...
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