Jasper Fforde: How to Describe

[LIB]

I've been reading Jasper Fforde: The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book and The Well of Lost Plots. I'm enjoying these books very much and would like to nominate one for my Book Group to read.

In my Book Group, when one nominates a book, one succinctly summarizes the book. Herein lies my problem.

For those of you who have read Japer Fforde, you understand my quandary.

How do I describe these books?

Thanks,
LIB

 

[Tempest]

Good luck with that. I've read the Thursday Next and Nursery Crimes Dvision series, and succinct is not a word that springs to mind when a description of those series is thought of. I can't even think where to begin! It's why I read, not write

 

[LIB]

Thanks Tempest; I'm really enjoying the books. I think I might throw out the "succinct" idea and just give a rambling description.
~LIB

 

[PipPirrip]

pretentious postmodern poppycock?

Actually, I quite liked the NCD stories. I thought the Thursday Next books were shy of a re-draft.

 

[beer good]

Metafiction?

 

[chuephödli]

"The Eyre Affair is the story of a police investigation into the abduction and murder of characters of classic English literature. It takes place both inside and outside Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit and Brontë's Jane Eyre, in a world almost, but not entirely unlike ours".

You're quite right, of course: there is no way to describe those books succinctly. On the other hand, when I heard just one or two tidbits of the plot, I immediately went out and bought The Eyre Affair.