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Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
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Lost in a Good Book

by Jasper Fforde

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A fun and intriguing sequel to The Eyre Affair. Fforde continues to develop his alternate reality further and the results are highly entertaining. The book introduces a new villain, as well as a new plot element in the series, namely the agency Jurisfiction and Thursday's enlistment as an apprentice book-jumper. These two threads might have been woven together a little more snugly, but it's something you realize in hindsight - while reading you're too caught up in what's happening to notice.

If you liked [book:The Eyre Affair], picking this one up is well worth your time. ( )
Zathras86 | Jun 27, 2009 | 1 vote
Similar to The Eyre Affair (the first in this series), this book is part fantasy, part crime thriller, and part anything else the author can throw into the mix. This makes it a very interesting read, rather unlike my usual choice of book. My only caveat with this particular book in the series is that there are great deal of minor characters introduced who often do not re-appear until 50 or 100 pages later, by which point I have already forgotten who they are and what their significance is. If you have a better memory than me, you probably won't have the same problem and will thoroughly enjoy this escapist drama. ( )
sweetiegherkin | Jun 11, 2009 | 1 vote
The second in the Thursday Next series (the first is The Eyre Affair) starts soon after the first ends. Thursday is being inundated with requests for appearances on TV shows (she's even asked to create a workout video) after her adventures in the pages of Jane Eyre. The Goliath Corporation is none too happy with her treatment of Jack Schitt; meanwhile, Cordelia Flakk is chasing Thursday down for more PR appearances, and someone seems intent on killing Thursday by coincidence (decrease in entropy occurs every once in awhile, but I'll let Mycroft explain how that happens). As full of deliciously stupid puns and literary references as the first book, and not to be missed. ( )
bell7 | Jun 10, 2009 | 1 vote
I am enjoying this series. I have a feeling it's about to go downhill, however, but that will not deter me from reading the 3rd book anyway. I'd rather see it die and end in a ditch than wonder if it really does. ( )
tundra | May 29, 2009 | 1 vote
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is dedicated to assisstants everywhere.
You make it happen for them.
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Sample viewing figures for major TV networks in England, September 1985... I didn't ask to be a celebrity.
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I’ve been in law enforcement for most of my life and I will tell you right now there is no such offense as ‘attempted murder by coincidence in an alternative future by person or persons unknown.’
Poor, dear, sweet Jane! I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people reading your thoughts! Here we do what we are told but think what we wish. It is a much happier circumstance, believe me! - Marianne Dashwood
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'Things,' Dad used to say, 'are a whole lot weirder than we can know.'
Attention, please. Passengers for the 11:04 DeepDrop to Sydney will be glad to know that the delay was due to too many excuses being created by the Gravitube’s Excuse Manufacturing Facility. Consequently we are happy to announce that since the excess excuses have now been used, the 11:04 DeepDrop to Sydney is ready for boarding at gate six.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0142004030, Paperback)

The inventive, exuberant, and totally original literary fun that began with The Eyre Affair continues with Jasper Fforde’s magnificent second adventure starring the resourceful, fearless literary sleuth Thursday Next. When Landen, the love of her life, is eradicated by the corrupt multinational Goliath Corporation, Thursday must moonlight as a Prose Resource Operative of Jurisfiction—the police force inside books. She is apprenticed to the man-hating Miss Havisham from Dickens’s Great Expectations, who grudgingly shows Thursday the ropes. And she gains just enough skill to get herself in a real mess entering the pages of Poe’s “The Raven.” What she really wants is to get Landen back. But this latest mission is not without further complications. Along with jumping into the works of Kafka and Austen, and even Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, Thursday finds herself the target of a series of potentially lethal coincidences, the authenticator of a newly discovered play by the Bard himself, and the only one who can prevent an unidentifiable pink sludge from engulfing all life on Earth.

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