Jasper Fforde: The Eyre Affair

[Conscious Bob]

The first in a series of fantasy books featuring Thursday Next, Literary Detective.

In amongst the nonsense is the novel idea that people can be physically transported into classic books and alter the stories simply by being in them. On this premise is built the world of Thursday Next with added vampires, half demons, psychopaths and genetically altered dodos.

If you like Pratchett/Rankin anything goes comedy fantasy books, this will appeal. The problem with it, for me anyway, is that Thursday is quite a serious character and the comedy is more of an 'insert joke here' sort of a read.

Worthy if not quite top league IMHO.

 

[Ronny]

The first in a series of fantasy books featuring Thursday Next, Literary Detective.

In amongst the nonsense is the novel idea that people can be physically transported into classic books and alter the stories simply by being in them. On this premise is built the world of Thursday Next with added vampires, half demons, psychopaths and genetically altered dodos.

If you like Pratchett/Rankin anything goes comedy fantasy books, this will appeal. The problem with it, for me anyway, is that Thursday is quite a serious character and the comedy is more of an 'insert joke here' sort of a read.

Worthy if not quite top league IMHO.

I agree. I liked the Eyre Affair, it was kind of fun but I never picked up the next book in the series.

 

[Hedwig]

I have read all of the series and thoroughly LOVE it. Weird, clever stuff.

 

[Ronny]

I may have to read them, I had meant to but got caught up in other things. I also read his, Shades of Grey, and really enjoyed it

 

[Hedwig]

Shades of Grey was fantastic, too (unlike its dreadful namesake ...) I hope we will get the promised sequel some time soon.

 

[Conscious Bob]

Thread was moved but I can't see where to, new reply to flush it out.

 

[Conscious Bob]

Sci-fi, fantasy and horror, appropriate.

 

[DATo]

All of the Fford stories involve living INSIDE the world of books where characters from one book sometimes appear in another. I was harassed into reading The Fourth Bear which was presented as a detective story about Goldilocks (who is a sumptuous blonde) and the Three Bears. The story does include bears which live apart but interact with humans much like a minority in the population. The detective as I recall was a Mickey Spillane type guy whose name was Jack Sprat - recently divorced from his wife as a result of culinary differences. It was clever but not my cup of tea. I'll pass on future Fford books.