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The least entertaining of the series, yet still more entertaining than most books.
I really enjoy Jasper Fforde's romps through BookWorld. Call me a book nerd, but I just really enjoy it. The Thursday Next series is awesome, and this book is no exception. It's set from the point of view of the Written Thursday Next, who is trying to find the RealWorld Thursday Next. Some quotes that entertain my dorky, readerly sense of humor:p 4 - "I opened the door to find three Dostogerskivites staring at me from within a dense cloud of moral relativism."p 7 - "Not many people traveled to t...
The thing I like best about this one, apart from the witty references to current concepts like FanFic and Harry Potter, is that we get to start at the beginning and watch our dear Thursday find herself all over again. The written Thursday lives in the shadow of the real Thursday, a woman of worldwide fame in both real and book worlds. She starts off rather timid and by the end has learned to trust herself. Sprockett the clockwork Jeeves is a wonderful character. And the mimefield is absolutely t...
How enchanting to fall back into Jasper Fforde's 'Thursday Next' Universe! Even before reading a single sentence I was delighted to find a wonderfully detailed map of Fiction Island in the now rebuilt BookWorld, which is divided into genres and sub-genres, where clowns are placed in Horror and everyone must converse in verse in Poetry.The actual plot is straight-forward, but it's the author's sheer creativity, sense of fun and the oh-so-many literary references which make Fforde's books so compe...
Book 6 in the Thursday Next series. Do not read without reading the previous books, this is definitely NOT a stand-alone.With each Thursday Next book I'm falling harder and harder. Fforde has intricately crafted a deep and complex world here. Thursday Next - a woman with the power to travel into books, and bring characters from books out into the real world - is an amazing heroine.I admire Thursday Next very much. A strong, older (in this book she's in her mid-50s), smart, kick-ass, world-weary,...
Previous rating: 3 stars. (I must have been high on really poor quality stuff when I first read this book.)New rating: 4.5 stars. (Seen the light I have. Go me and stuff.)➽ And the moral of this reread is: the smuggling of metaphors + Get Bitten Senseless by Bourne package holidays + metonyms and synecdoches and met labs, oh my + getting wasted hyphenated + a very pissed-off Harry Potter + the Narrative Clunker Unit + Risibility, Mirthrate and mimefields + the great Farquitt Snoozathon + the Lad...
I'm torn as to how to review this latest Jasper Fforde entry. I've enjoyed all of the Thursday Next series, from The Eyre Affair onward, mostly because they've made me laugh and they've rewarded me for having a nimble mind and a knowledge of history and culture. After the last book, which seemed to neatly tie everything up, I was wondering what Fforde had in mind to keep the story fresh. Well, he has a nice twist, but it almost feels like a different series. Instead of focusing on Thursday and t...
As you can tell I am not reading this series in order. I read the first book, to see what it was like and enjoyed it because of the literary references. Then when my coworker, Doug B. (he's the one who introduced me to this series), told me I should read this one next, and that I could borrow it from him, I didn't hesitate.To be perfectly honest, it took me a while to figure out what the heck was going on, but once I understood, I enjoyed the book, as it was very meta and a bit bizarre, two thin...
It's been a while since I started the Thursday Next series, and the other books in the series weren't that fresh in my mind, so I was a little overwhelmed by references to ideas and events introduced in previous books. Plus, this work was a little slow to get established for me because I wasn't ready for our main character to be, perhaps, a different character than the other Thursday novels. My final minor gripe with this book, which I nevertheless enjoyed, is what seems to be an overwhelming am...
What were the pearls and ingenuities of these novels that will very probably be reread to discover all the overlooked hidden easter eggs? The chrono guard protecting the consistency of everything, satirizing all kinds of similar special forces in the history of Sci-Fi, fantasy, military, spy, agent, and thriller novels. It´s a bit biopunky, as genetic engineering is highly developed with Neanderthals, mammoths, and dodos with less advanced computers and has some Steampunk elements in it. The Gol...
I have a confession: I read this half hoping to hate it so I could make some space on the physical library shelves. Alas, there is no way I could consign it to "the narrative doldrums of the suburbs." The reading references are too clever, the mystery too intriguing and the character-building too well-done. Don't tell Friday, but I think I might have to toss 'Something Rotten' instead.I haven't read Thursday Next in about ten years, so I wasn't sure how confused I'd be. I remember a lingering se...
Oh, I just loved this book. From beginning to its very wonderful end.I’m in love with Jasper Fforde. He’s got a brilliant imagination and he’s hilarious, so wickedly funny!At first I was puzzled and missed the “real” Thursday and the “real” Pickwick, but I quickly got on board with this romp. I ended up loving the written Thursday and I loved Sprockett, her butler. I got reminded of the previous books as I read, especially in the little blurbs that start each chapter.A fun and clever book. A gre...
An engaging, mind-bending romp, as always. I was SO relieved to discover (view spoiler)[the real Thursday hadn't been killed off; would've felt very Holmesian. (hide spoiler)] Diving into Thursday's actual book series gave this installment a whole added level of Meta and lots of fun, self-deprecating asides about the author. And I love Sprocket and dearly hope we see him again!Yet another MacHalo BR of Madcap Mania!
*rubs handies together*haha - there is a map of Fiction Island at the front.This book has been bundled with SPECIAL FEATURES including: The Making of... wordamentary, deleted scenes, alternative endings and much more.So this is how it starts...The BookWorld RemadeEveryone remembers where they were when the BookWorld was remade. I was at home 'resting between readings', which is a polite euphemism for 'almost remaindered'.and this is how it ends...'Humans,' said Sprockett, 'are the most gloriousl...
I really enjoy Jasper Fforde’s writing. It sparkles. The problem is I don’t often find him in local bookstores, and Barnes and Noble appeals only to the lowest common denominator. In any case, I’ve read five of his novels and have been consistently impressed by his wit and humor. One of Our Thursdays Is Missing is part of his Thursday Next series. Although I haven’t done this, I recommend starting from the beginning and following the books in order. (I don’t, for reasons explained on my blog: Se...
Jasper Fforde is a man after my own heart. Firstly, he loves books. That's clear in the non-stop literary references that joyously abound in his novel "One of Our Thursdays is Missing". Secondly, he has a warped sense of humor, one that I appreciate. (If you love British humor like Monty Python, you will undoubtedly enjoy Fforde.)Keep in mind, "OOOTIM" is part of a series (#7, I believe), one that I have not read prior to this one, and while the world he creates is an elaborate one, and the char...
Dear Jasper Fforde:Please stop being awesome. It's hard to have a favorite author who when people ask you "What's the book about?" you have to go into a 10 minute explination of how this is book 6 of a series and there's people that travel between books, and there's The Bookworld and there's Spec Ops and on and on and then they look at you oddly and then leave. If your books weren't so awesome I wouldn't be so awkward, but I feel I have to share, because... they're awesome. I am seriously, liter...
I could say this is a "return to form" for Fforde because I haven't enjoyed a book of his this much since Something Rotten (I disliked First Amongst Sequels and felt lukewarm about the two books in the Nursery Crime series)...but this book is a lot different than the other books in the Thursday Next series. It may be the most metafictional commercial fiction book ever written. The other books in the series seemed like they were written for those who were big readers, but this one also feels like...
How often does a popular series switch-out the protagonist in Book 6?I can't think of another example. Jasper Fforde is a very clever, imaginative, witty and playful writer. Books 1-3 in this Thursday Next series are brilliant. Book 4 was very good, but not quite as sparkling. Book 5, the last in the series before this, was the weakest by a considerable margin. It felt... flatter than what had gone before."Has he lost it?" I worried."Does this mark the beginning of the end?" I fretted.Then came
As in the rest of the series, the latest volume in the Thursday Next oeuvre is fast moving, hysterically funny, and amazingly clever, but this time it’s also surprisingly moving. The fictional Thursday Next from the previous sequel is the lead, and in her struggles to save the intrepid real world Thursday Next by trying to figure out what her real world self would do, the fictional Thursday Next is oddly more sympathetic than her living, breathing counterpart. One of Our Thursdays is Missing is