Book Review Jasper Fforde had a stroke of brilliance with the "Thursday Next" series of adventure books. Lost in a Good Book is the second release in the series and I've given it a very high 3 of 5 stars. As it's a very difficult book to truly wrap your head around, it couldn't get a 5 from me. When I compared it to the first one, The Eyre Affair, I had to give it a slightly lower rating just because I enjoyed the first one more. A few really cool things about these books:1. Thursday

Much fun. Very puns. Wow.

The idea of parallel universes, alternate timelines, uchronias,… is an often used trope, but in this constellation and with the interconnections and dependencies on and in the real book world and the not any more so just fictional second world, it gives the idea a whole new dimension.It´s close to a literary and sociological experiment to integrate the worldview, mentality, history, of the time the novels were created and how they influenced the awareness about those times and how novels are mor...

‘Bad boy!’ she added in a scolding tone. The Tasmanian tiger looked crestfallen, sat on its blanket by the Aga and stared down at its paws. ‘Rescue Thylacine,’ explained my mother. ‘Used to be a lab animal. He smoked forty a day until his escape. It’s costing me a fortune in nicotine patches. Isn’t it, DH-82?’ This is such a clever book and there ere are so many quotable passages, but the problem is that may favourite parts contain spoilers of either this book or of pretty much any classic work

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This is one of those books that I wanted to like so much more than I did. Hell, it's one of those books that I feel like I should like more than I do. I mean, with the little literary cameos and the wry humor (and occasionally groan-inducing puns), with the jumping through books and really just the whole thing - it should be right up my alley. But it just doesn't work for me.Part of it is that I feel it has a little bit of the Un Lun Dun problem - it seems more a showcase for all the nifty ideas...

Thursday Next must prevent Armageddon from happening next Thursday. This second episode of the saga of Thursday Next is filled with wordplay, bookjumping and irony.It is very cleverly written and I found myself chuckling often at the situations that were described by Fforde and the definitions of terms often presented before each chapter.This exchange between Landon and Thursday is one of the best in the book:'"Goodbye, Thursday," muttered Landon, looking at the ham."Are you going somewhere?" I

While I didn’t feel quite the same extreme sense of glee about the final parts of the book as I did with the end the first book in the series (The Eyre Affair), the events toward the end of the book were, once again, exceedingly clever. And: I think that I enjoyed this book even more than the first one, which is saying a lot. I’m also thrilled because several people have told me that the next/third book in the series is their favorite so far; I believe that there are 5 now. I’m therefore very ea...

Super fun for book geeks like me. Even if I am unfamiliar with some of the books and characters mentioned here, as in the first Thursday Next book, I had no problem laughing out loud on occassion and following the plot. Having read this after Christopher Moore's "You Suck!" it is interesting to note the different approaches to creating humorous situations. Moore relies rather heavily on teenage angst and sex jokes while Fforde borrows from the English tradition of word play, absurdism (is this e...

Curses! About 40 pages from the end, I had to run out and get the next book in the Thursday Next series, "Well of Lost Plots." This book doesn't have an ending! Even worse, I got sucked up into it and had to keep going. "Lost in a Good Book" is the sequel to "The Eyre Affair" starring spec ops officer Thursday Next. To say that Thursday's life is complicated is an understatement. I'm not going to get into the plot or characters of this book. To do so would spoil this book, the preceding book, an...

September, 2020:I listened to the audio of this book to refresh my memory before continuing with the series.This is still a story that is a lot of fun to read. There are so many clever & interesting oddities in Thursday's world. It's fresh and very entertaining. I enjoyed this story more than the first book (which I liked). I think it's because I got to know the characters more, they became more real. Their world was more familiar and the story was touching. I look forward to continuing with Thu...

I really, really liked this sequel! I liked the first book in this series but I thought this one was incredible. I felt like this one really drove home the bookish element to this series that the first one only touched on. Some of my favorite parts about this book was the book jumping, the conversations in the footnotes, all the bootstrap paradoxes, and this books funny self awareness. In the last book we got a glimpse of Thursdays power to jump into the events of any book, but it wasn't the mai...

This is the 2nd book in the series, after THE EYRE AFFAIR. Read that first, or you might be a bit lost.Thursday Next is now married to Landon. They are so in love. Both veterans of the Crimean War, they have put the past behind them and started a new future together.Thursday is a Special Operative. She is a LiteraTec, someone who deals with stolen and forged books. But Thursday is also blessed with a rare special power - she can travel INTO books.In this book she visits, among others, Sense and

This was a reread and I still loved it just as much as the first time around. Pickwick the dodo gets so many mentions in the early books. The way she looks after her egg and makes "plock plock" noises is delightful. And of course this is the book where something happens to poor Landon. Disappointing because he is one of my favourite characters but still very typical of Fforde's clever, funny and crazy ideas.Thursday is developing her skills at book jumping and we start to meet all the wonderful

I love the sheer inventiveness of Jasper Fforde's books, and in this series, the madcap way that he messes with literature, with both love and a childlike glee, and it makes me happy to have spent some time rereading this book.Note: The rest of this review has been withdrawn due to the changes in Goodreads policy and enforcement. You can read why I came to this decision here.In the meantime, you can read the entire review at Smorgasbook

Actual rating: 4.5 stars.➽ And the moral of this rerereread is: I want to work at Jurisfiction when I grow up. Because Miss Havisham (aka the newest addition to the Fast and Furious cast) + the Red Queen + the Cheshire Cat + Prose Resource Operatives + Sense and Sensibility Confusion and Conviviality + PageRunners + preposterous stuff vs. Kafkaesque stuff + the Character Exchange Program + the vertebrate uberclassics not translating well into Arthropod (view spoiler)[😍🍤🦀🦐😍 (hide spoiler)] + ISBN...

Maybe only a 3.5 star, but it was another fun trip into such a strange world filled with literary references, slippery characters, murder, & mayhem. There's plenty of wry humor, puns, & ridiculous situations to make sure things don't get too serious. I'd call it a cozy mystery, except that belies just how fantastic the world is & there is no way the reader can figure out what is going to happen. I sometimes wonder if the author knows. He writes the way Mrs. Haversham (Yes, the lady from Great Ex...

3.0 to 3.5 stars. Not quite as enjoyable as Fforde's other novels (my favorite being The Big Over Easy) but still a good read. I really like the "world" of Thursday next and will certainly visit it again by reading the next book in the series.

good sequel. Got me interested into reading the series again. A little bit odd but endearing.

Though I'm not generally a big fan of book series, the Thursday Next books are really growing on me. This second book picks up shortly after The Eyre Affair ended and follows Thursday as she again tangles with Goliath, tries to figure out why she is experiencing life-threatening coincidences, and begins to learn more about the fine art of book-jumping. Though character development does not seem to be Fforde's priority and the bad guys in particular a little too thinly drawn, the underlying premi...